Your Preferences file did its magic, function definitions now work as expected.
Thank you very much!
As far as whether or not I have fink's gnuplot installed, I THINK I do. The
command is located in /sw/bin/gnuplot, and gnuplot -V returns with gnuplot 4.6
patchlevel 4. I don't understand where the terminal for plotting gets set. It
doesn't happen in /sw/share/gnuplot/4.6/gnuplotrc, everything is commented out
there. On my machine it was somehow set as aqua (default setting in some
initialization file?), but I took a look at the gnuplot user's manual and saw
that I could create a file .gnuplot in $HOME, where I set the terminal to X11.
Actually, aqua gives a little better looking plot than X11, but I haven't
messed with any options for X11. When I input a simple plot to wxmaxima, like
plot2d(sin(x),[x,0,2*%pi]); the output line comes back with
"/Users/$HOME/maxout.gnuplot_pipes", then plots the function in X11 just fine.
Do your plots come back with an output line like this to a
"maxout.gnuplot_pipes" file? It doesn't seem to cause a problem, just curious.
Thanks once more for all your help.
> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 06:58:08 -0700
> From: alexanderk.han...@gmail.com
> To: mike.wil...@hotmail.com; fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Output of a function definition in wxmaxima?
>
> On 3/24/14, 4:31 AM, Mike Wilkes wrote:
> > I have found no resolution of this problem after a considerable amount
> > of searching the internet, and a post at the wxmaxima forum (with no
> > follow-up whatsoever from anyone there). A couple of other things I
> > noticed about the lack of symbols in the output lines is that if I copy
> > the output line to the next input line, all the symbols are there, but
> > again if I request the output of the newly copied input line, there are
> > no symbols. I mentioned that clicking on the defined function name on
> > the input line and pressing the F1 key displays the full output line,
> > with all symbols, in place of the original line bereft of symbols. Also
> > both maxima from the command line, and xmaxima from the console have no
> > problems displaying an output function definition or variable expression.
> >
> > I suppose that the next step is to remove fink's version again, and try
> > installing from the wxmaxima website. It is stated there that for Mac OS
> > X: wxmaxima 13.04.0 is included with Maxima 5.30.0. That line is
> > apparently out of date as the versions I have installed at present via
> > fink are Maxima 5.32.1 and wxmaxima 13.04.2. I am not sure, really, how
> > such a reinstall might change things.
> >
> > Incidentally, in order to get gnuplot to work with wxmaxima and maxima,
> > I followed a suggestion from an old document at
> > https://pangea.stanford.edu/~schmitt/maxima.html. It suggested creating
> > a .maxima directory in my home directory, and in it a
> > filemaxima-init.macwith the following lines:
> > gnuplot_command:"/usr/local/bin/gnuplot"$
> > draw_command:"/usr/local/bin/gnuplot"$
> > set_plot_option([gnuplot_term, aqua])$
> >
> > Afterwards, plot2d worked fine from wxmaxima and xmaxima. Without this,
> > the plot2d output was being sent from wxmaxima to a file
> > /Users/home/maxout.gnuplot_pipes, which I think could then be plotted
> > with gnuplot (some of this has been lost to memory in the last few days).
> >
> > If you have any other suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated.
> > Thanks again, Alexander.
> >
>
> A reinstall probably won't help. Your issue is most likely that
> something in the preferences is awry, and any version you install will
> use those same preferences.
>
> You might try using my preferences file (attached). It'll need to go
> in your $HOME/Library/Preferences directory.
>
> I did _not_ have to set up a .maxima/filemaxima-init.mac as you did to
> get gnuplot to work. And unless you changed stuff around, you're using a
> non-Fink gnuplot setup.
> --
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison
> My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
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