Subject: maxima with imaxima and xemacs, latex error.
From: Alejandro Morales
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:13:15 -0600 (CST)
Dear Robert:
"breqn" is installed and responds to "kpsewhich breqn.sty" with:
"/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/mh/breqn.sty"
Do you you any other advice?
thanks: A. Morales.
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Robert Dodier wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Alejandro Morales <mori at fis.unam.mx> wrote:
>
>> With the following instructions in maxima using imaxima on xemacs I get a
>> latex error:
>>
>> e1:x_1*K_1+%i*x_1*G_1-k*k_2/m_1-omega**2*x_1=F/m_1;
>> e2:x_2*K_2+%i*x_2*G_2-k*k_1/m_2-omega**2*x_2=0;
>> [globalsolve:false,programmode:false];
>> linsolve([e1,e2],[x_1,x_2]);
>> polarform(%t4);
>>
>> With the last instruction imaxima gives the ?message "Latex error in" and a
>> huge latex file. Is there a way to fix this problem?
>
> I believe a common reason for the LaTeX error is that
> the breqn (line breaking) package is not installed where TeX can find it.
>
> kpsewhich breqn.sty
>
> should find breqn. If it doesn't, copy breqn097a and
> everything in it to /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex,
> sudo texhash, and try kpsewhich again.
> If it is found successfully, try imaxima again.
>
> Hmm, I see there is a problem here ... breqn097a is not included
> in the rpm installation -- that's an oversight. If breqn097a is not
> in the Maxima package you installed, you can grab it in from
> CVS. See:
> http://maxima.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/maxima/maxima/interfaces/emacs/imaxima/
>
> Hope this helps, let us know how it goes.
>
> best
>
> Robert Dodier
>