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[Axiom-developer] RE: [Axiom-mail] Two beginner questions
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Bill Page |
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[Axiom-developer] RE: [Axiom-mail] Two beginner questions |
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Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:11:37 -0400 |
On April 10, 2007 8:22 AM Martin Rubey wrote:
>
> "Alasdair McAndrew" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> > Thanks so much for your detailed reply! So - I'm using Axiom
> > in TeXmacs. Without starting a new instance of Axiom from
^^^^^^^
> > another shell, how do I access HyperDoc?
>
> Oh, HyperDoc does not appear when started from within Axiom?
> I'd call that a bug. (I'm not using TeXmacs, anybody out there
> who knows?)
No. Of course HyperDoc does not start when Axiom is used under
TeXmacs. TeXmacs (normally) uses only AXIOMsys.
>
> However, it is not so inconvenient as you might think. When
> Axiom is doing a big calculation, HyperDoc becomes unresponsive.
> Thus I often start a second Axiom, to do some browsing while
> I let Axiom compute. Maybe you want to write a tiny shell script
> like
>
> ## call this file axiom and put it into your private ~/bin
> #! /bin/bash
>
> $AXIOM/bin/axiom
> $AXIOM/bin/axiom $@
> ##############################################################
>
> (i.e., first start axiom without any parameters, which you
> will use for HyperDoc browsing, then start the "real" axiom
> process, which TeXmacs will use.)
Martin, your "advice" is confusing. TeXmacs starts it's own
copy of Axiom. It cannot use a previously started process.
>
> > And how do Windows users get their Axiom help?
>
> They don't :-(. It's too sad, but we have not found a
> programmer who is either
>
> * willing to port HyperDoc to MS Windows (HyperDoc relies on X)
>
> or
>
> * willing to write a HyperDoc replacement as outlined in
> http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/SummerOfCode2007 and many
> many long email discussions.
>
> If you have somebody handy, please tell me immediately. We
> can even pay a (very) symbolic amount of money. If he decides
> today (deadline is April 11), he probably can do it as a Summer
> of Code project and earn 4500$. In this case he should apply
> here:
>
> http://lispnyc.org/soc.clp
>
> and mention Martin Rubey as (inofficial) co-mentor.
>
Sorry, but Summer of Code application deadline was March 26.
Regards,
Bill Page.
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