HOWTO document Maxima sessions?



Every time I hear of TeXmacs as a GUI for Maxima, I recalll how SLOW 
TeXmacs is on my PII-233MHz :( Either emacs, or xmaxima, or Maple or 
Mathematica are much much faster UIs than TeXmacs. Symmax2 is next slow 
interface to TeXmacs. So, I'd appreciate either symmax-style compiled 
GUI (under KDE maybe) or significant speedup of TeXmacs...

--
Andrei Zorine

(please, do not tell me once more about imaxima and emaxima, I know 
about them)

Jaap Weel wrote:
> I think the general idea is that one uses TeXmacs to do Maxima sessions 
> that are documents. Last time I tried it it wasn't perfect, but 
> potentially workable, though I have the idea it may have improved 
> significantly ever since. TeXmacs is a GUI, structured, WYSIWYG editor 
> (yay buzzwords!) that uses an engine similar to Donald Knuth's TeX 
> typesetting software, and the output is of similar (that is, 
> outstanding) quality. If it works (and once again, I haven't tried in a 
> while, but it should work pretty well now) it can be used much like 
> Mathematica worksheets, a little worse at math interaction, but a much 
> better at generating quality typesetting. It can deal with a bunch of 
> different Computer Algebra Systems and other mathematical systems, most 
> notably Maxima, Axiom and Octave.
> 
>     /jaap
> 
> 
> Op 6 Nov 2003 om 22:22 heeft Peter Ulrich Kruppa het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> I am quite new to Maxima, so please do excuse, if this is some
>> kind of FAQ.
>> I wonder what would the most reasonable way to document my Maxima
>> sessions. I don't need a perfect latex layout, but something like
>> Maple's worksheets. A document should contain
>> - all statements I put in,
>> - Maxima's output (including graphics),
>> - my additional comments (about the problem, I am trying to
>>   solve, the steps I took, my interpretation of the results).
>>
>> As I said: I don't need a perfect layout. I have got enough text
>> processors running on my machine to effect this, if needed.
>> I am just looking for a fast and easy documentation for every-day
>> usage.
>>
>> Thanks for all hints.
>>
>> Uli.
>>
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