On January 25, 2006 1:25 AM Herb Martin wrote: > ... I would like to understand better what is supposed to > be working (on Win32 without anexplicit CygWin install.) > > I have installed Axiom and understand there is a > TexMacs included: tm_axiom.exe > > This runs if started first.
?? What runs? You mean tm_axiom.exe? That is not supposed to be run by you. It is internal to TeXmacs. tm_axiom is the process that interfaces between TeXmacs and Axiom. It handles all communications in both directions. > But I don't seem to have (or perhaps understand) any > connection between Axiom and TexMacs. If you have tm_axiom.exe installed in the right location (See: http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/TeXmacs ), then inside TeXmacs you should be able to choose Axiom from the Session menu. When you do this, TeXmacs starts tm_axiom.exe and in turn tm_axiom.exe starts AXIOMsys (the main Axiom process). (All this is normally invisible to you, as a user.) The Axiom commands that you enter into TeXmacs after the red -> prompt are sent via tm_axiom.exe to AXIOMsys. Axiom calculates a result and generates a LaTeX expression as output. This is expression is sent back to tm_axiom which folds the LaTeX output to conform to the page size and then tm_axiom.exe sends it TeXmacs. TeXmacs converts the LaTeX expressions to it's internal form and displays the result inside the document. > > Also when using draw commands (from the Axiom docs) > from within the Axiom command line I get socket > errors which implies that some program should be > setup perhaps as a "server" etc. > > (41) -> draw(f, 0..4) > Graph data being transmitted to the viewport manager... > > >> System error: > SOCK-SEND-INT is invalid as a function. > > protected-symbol-warn called with (NIL) > (41) -> > > Maybe there is a doc I missed for installing Axiom > and getting it to work with (the included) TexMacs > or for creating Graphics.... Yes. :) The Axiom Wiki web site has a lot of useful information (although admittedly of uneven quality and some a little out of date already ... :( http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/55GraphicsDoesNotWorkOnWindows http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/AxiomGraphics http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/TeXmacs Unfortunately Axiom graphics is not yet available on Windows. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-math mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-math
