--- "Andrey G. Grozin" <A.G.Grozin@inp.nsk.su> wrote:
> The progress of the Windows port of TeXmacs seems good. I have no
> access to Windows (and don't want to :-), but it seems that TeXmacs
> will be available to Windows users within a few months.
Excellent!
> Yes, all of this is quite possible. TeXmacs understands postscript:
> tag in a CAS output.
>
> However, I could never understand why anybody would like to do this.
Well, let me try ;-).
> The plot in a separate window is *live*: I can manupulate it using
> menus of this external window. The plot included into a TeXmacs
> document is *dead*. It cannot be changed in any way, the best bet is
> to repeat the plotting command with some options changed.
True. However, if people are creating a mathematical document,
particularly at the beginner stage, the logical place for the plot to
appear is in the document. Mathematica's plots are not live, for
example, at least not by default. From my perspective, if I'm working
on a homework assignment, I'd like the plot to automatically appear in
the document, rather than messing around getting a postscript and
importing it myself.
> If I *relly* want to include the resulting plot into my document
> (which happens in 1% of cases approximately), I can
> export it as a .eps file and import it into my document.
Ah - there's the difference. My plot inclusion is much higher thatn
1%.
> TeXmacs does not need breqn. It does a pretty good job in splitting
> long expressions right now and, surely, will do this even better in
> future. The good thing about this is that this progress will improve
> interfaces to all supported CASs at once.
Interesting - I didn't know TeXmacs managed that itself.
CY
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