Thanks for the additional information. I'll try the SPADEDIT thing when I'm
feeling particularly masochistic :-)
My HyperDoc does crash if I try to search the library documentation in the
Browser. It says
Cannot open the file /usr/lib/axiom-20050901/algebra/libdb.text.
and kills not only the Browser window but also the top-level HyperDoc window.
I don't know why that file is missing. I'm using the version of Axiom in
Debian Etch.
Another surprising behaviour is that if I kill one of the secondary windows
using the operating system's (GNOME's) close-window command, the top-level
HyperDoc window also dies. Sometimes this also seems to cause the main Axiom
command line to stop acting properly, such that I can give a )quit command
but it doesn't quit, so I have to kill the Axiom process from outside. I
can't seem to replicate it right now.
In spite of all this whining, I'm very happy: thanks to the great help from
you and Bill Page, I have managed to write some Axiom code to solve my
problem, with 4 levels of nested loops to do parameter variations, and a
bunch of if-then-else's! I even figured out how to select the right one of
the 3 solutions to the cubic (defined with 4 equations in 4 unknowns) and
squirt all the results into a TeXmacs document :-)
Thank you.
- Robert