Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom CAS

[daly]

David,

Axiom has its own internal "browser-like" front end called
hyperdoc. I am in the process of moving the information from
hyperdoc to traditional web pages. 

The browser pages are all built automatically and live in
$AXIOM/doc/hypertex and the root page is:
$AXIOM/doc/hypertex/rootpage.xhtml

Communication with a running Axiom is started by typing
)browse
at the Axiom command line. Axiom will now listen on 
localhost:8085 and serve pages to the same port.

This is still under development. It will eventually allow
Sage notebook-style interactions (See "Any Command").
Unfortunately there is still much work to be done but
the basics exist.

Tim Daly


On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 20:09 +0100, David Mould wrote:
> Hello
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> I download and install the Axiom Scientific Computation System from
> time to time usually when I update my Fedora Linux system. I note
> that, for the past year or so, Axiom has been provided with a
> graphical front end through the Firefox web browser. Unfortunately, it
> is not abundantly clear to me how the Firefox GUI is invoked from the
> details provided on your web-site. Is it invoked through a statement
> similar to notebook() used at the command line in the Sage CAS system
> or by some other method? 
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> I note that on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_%
> 28computer_algebra_system%29, volume 11 of the listed documentation
> describes the compilation of the web pages apparently from source code
> but this is too ‘heavy duty’ for the occasional user. I therefore
> wondered whether any precompiled material is available (open-source)
> that will allow Axiom to be used within Firefox without too much
> difficulty.
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> Best regards 
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> David Mould (MIChemE CSci CEng)
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