On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 5:53 AM, Bill Page <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am sorry but it has been a long time since I last tried using
> TeXmacs with FriCAS. Several times over the last few years I have been
> optimistic about using TeXmacs but each time I have had problems with
> installation of TeXmacs

How did you install TeXmacs?  I recommend to compile it from source.
Although the dependency of guile-1.8 is bad.

> disappointment at the performance of TeXmacs
> itself, and then later some infrequent but annoying problems with loss
> of synchronization between TeXmacs and FriCAS.

I remembered about the bad performance and loss of synchronization
and segfaults a few years back.  I think the conditions are better now,
less frequent.

> I do not remember why either of these items were commented-out. In the
> case of <mathd> perhaps I simply did not understand how this was
> supposed to be used. If replacing "quad" with "spc" works in
> formatNary that is probably OK.  None of this has had much testing so
> you may just be finding things that were never fully resolved.  I am
> glad that you have taken a serious interest in using FriCAS in
> TeXmacs. Maybe this can eventually become a preferred interface for
> FriCAS. If you have a branch with updates to the interface I think I
> can find some time to try using it again.
>
> Bill Page.

https://github.com/oldk1332/fricas/commits/texmacs

Some of the patches are hacks, not ready to be merged.

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