Subject: Standard maxima installation under Linux?
From: Andrey G. Grozin
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:45:54 +0600 (NOVT)
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Robert Dodier wrote:
>>> well, it should be, but it is not -- at odd times maxima will try
>>> to read something from the console, and waits forever if noone
>>> is there to type something ... but if your program already works
>>> on windows, you must have solved that problem.
>>
>> Actually, this still worries me. So far, I've only used Maxima for
>> factorization and solving equations, and I haven't had any trouble
>> with either of those. I'm thinking that when I add integration, it
>> will be more likely to pop up.
>
> so far as i know, working around this behavior is completely a mess.
> however, there are several front-end programs so i guess that it
> has been solved in different ways. see:
> http://maxima.sf.net/relatedprojects.shtml
I don't think it's really a mess. A question like
Is a positive or negative?
is just a special kind of prompt. A front-end program (e.g., TeXmacs)
treats it like any other prompt, like, e.g.,
(%i123)
and waits for a user input after it. This can be done easily by redefining
*prompt-prefix* and *prompt-suffix*.
Andrey