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[Axiom-developer] [Axiom-mail] \begin{axiom} latex on windows
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Ryan Krauss |
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[Axiom-developer] [Axiom-mail] \begin{axiom} latex on windows |
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Thu, 11 Aug 2005 19:33:09 -0500 |
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I can't find any documentation on the pamphlet format. Can you tell me
where I can find out more?
Thanks,
Ryan
Bob McElrath wrote:
> Ryan Krauss address@hidden wrote:
>
>>I found this example on the axiom-developer mailing list from about a
>>year ago:
>>
>> \begin{axiom-input}
>> R1:=matrix([[cos a, sin a, 0],[-sin a, cos a, 0],[0, 0, 1]])
>> \end{axiom-input}
>> Next we define a rotation around the Y axis by a rotation angle of b
>> \begin{axiom-input}
>> R2:=matrix([[cos b, 0, -sin b],[0, 1, 0],[sin b, 0, cos b]])
>> \end{axiom-input}
>> The we compose them (order is important) to form the single
>> rotation equivalent to first rotating around X, then around
>> the new, displaced Y.
>> \begin{axiom-input}
>> R:=R1*R2
>> \end{axiom-input}
>>
>>I would very much like to be able to write LaTeX documents like this on
>>Windows XP. Has anyone done this?
>
>
> The MathAction wiki
> (http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/FrontPage)
> allows documents like this. It runs on the zope server, and some code
> pasted together by myself and Bill Page calls axiom on the server to
> render the document.
>
> Additionally the "pamphlet" format used natively by axiom supports
> running axiom commands, using a similar syntax.
>
> Finally, we are currently working on a more "worksheet" style interface,
> and the first iteration I did was a modification of tiddlywiki
> (http://www.tiddlywiki.com) to support axiom and jsMath. (it runs axiom
> without a server using some javascript tricks in firefox) However this
> will definitely not work on windows.
>
>
>>If not, I am a bit of a Python programmer and I was thinking one way to
>>make it work would be to have Python parse the tex file and take
>>whatever is between the \begin{axiom} and \end{axiom} statements and
>>create an input file for axiom with the output set by the file to go to
>>numbered .tex files. Python would then replace the \begin{axiom}...
>>with \begin{equation} \input{....###} (i.e. the output files from axiom).
>
>
> The code is all python but does not run standalone, currently. Trivial
> modifications could be made to make it run standalone.
>
>
>>But in order to make something like this work, Python needs to be able
>>to call axiom and tell it to run the script (and possibly close axiom
>>afterward). Is there a way to do this on Windows? Can it be done with
>>a dos command?
>
>
> I can't comment on windows...
>
> If you're interested in working on this, please join axiom-developer!
> ;)
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics]
>
> "One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen
> these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding
> fathers used in the great struggle for independence." --Charles A. Beard
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