until texmacs runs on windows without cygwin etc, I think it will have limited usefulness. At least that has been my impression, and I have cygwin..
RJF
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrey G. Grozin" <A.G.Grozin at inp.nsk.su>
Date: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:15 pm
Subject: Re: [Maxima] students involved in Maxima
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Nicolas Pettiaux wrote:
> > I still have some ideas:
> >
> > 1/ help develop some "notebook" program,
> There is a "notebook" interface to maxima already: GNU TeXmacs.
> Rather
> than re-inventing all the relevant weels again, it would be better
> to
> improve it. TeXmacs is used as a common interface to a number of
> free and
> commercial CASs (maxima, axiom, yacas, giac, mathemagix, gtybalt,
> macaulay, mathematica, maple, mupad, reduce...) and numerical and
> graphical programs (octave, scilab, R, gnuplot, graphviz, ...). A
> user can
> cut-and-paste between them. Improvements made to TeXmacs will be
> useful
> not only to maxima, but to many other systems. A good project is a
> smart
> line-splitting in long output expressions.
>
> > 2/ help develop the links with the SAGE project (that puts together
> > octave, maxima and others with the help of python)
> >
> > 2/ help develop the plotting capabilities and easiness of
> maxima, in
> > 2D and 3D through interactive gnuplot or other packages (like
> VTK for
> > 3D, plplot ...)
> Here we definitely should use interfaces to existing plotting
> packages,
> not to re-invent the weel. The problem is there are so many of
> them. Many
> are good, but none is ideal (gnuplot, in particular, is not
> ideal). We
> should review the existing possibilities and choose one (or two)
> which
> seems the best, and then write some interface code on the maxima side.
>
> Andrey
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