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Re: [Texmacs-dev] TeXmacs on Cygwin finally runs - How can I contribute


From: Joris van der Hoeven
Subject: Re: [Texmacs-dev] TeXmacs on Cygwin finally runs - How can I contribute in the further development?
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:41:49 +0100 (MET)

Hi Stephan,

> thanks to the very complete instructions of Bill Page
> (http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/texmacs-dev/2002-November/000867.html)
> I finally succeeded in compiling and installing TeXmacs on cygwin.
> Thanks a lot, Bill.
> 
> I think, there should be at least a link to Bills summary on the
> official TeXmacs site, because it took me a lot of time to get the
> program running and for other people it is surely the same.
> I have one additional thing to his instructions:
> 
> >The fourth change involes the log2 function in
> >the module shrink.cc located in
> >
> >  $ cd Resource/Bitmap_fonts
> >  $ vi shrink.cc
> >
> >Since log2 conflicts with a name known to gcc
> >and isn't really needed anyway, I just changed
> >'log2' to 'log2x' on line 17.
> 
> IMHO, this part lacks the change of 'log2' to 'log2x' in line 196.

OK, I fixed this (patch 706).

As to a nice web-page for installing TeXmacs on Cygwin:
I am willing to put it on the main site, but one should first
write a page in a similar style as the other installation pages;
one should not forget that these pages should also address
non-experts. I started to create such a page

        http://www.texmacs.org/Download/Cygwin.html

So if there is a volunteer to finish it...

> Now, because the program works I'm thinking in contributing to the
> further development. What I really would like to have
> (and I think a lot of people do) is a system that combines word
> processing, input and output from text files (mainly ascii data) and
> mathmatics (including plotting) interactively. That means, I'm hoping
> that it would be possible in the future to combine shell comands,
> gnuplot, mathematical systems like different cas or octave to a free,
> much more costumizible, higher quality and a little more ;-) stable
> 'MathCad'-like environment. It is vital for this purpose, that it is
> possible to change certain values or commands or equations and program
> changes everthing that depends on this item immediately.
>
> I hope that I can contribute in this field. Please send me any kind of
> comments, hints for possible ways to do this within the existing
> philosophy of TeXmacs, your suggestions, how parts of this can be done
> with the present functionality and so on ...

Thanks for your proposal to help us :^) In order to start,
you might want to try to interface TeXmacs with GNUplot.
Of course I have many more ideas, but I think that this will
be a good entrypoint for you.

Best wishes, Joris





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