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Re: [Axiom-developer] html formatter
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Tim Daly |
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Re: [Axiom-developer] html formatter |
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Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:36:23 -0500 |
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Martin Baker wrote:
On Saturday 30 Jan 2010 13:41:09 Tim Daly wrote:
Are you aware of the work in Axiom Volume 11: The Axiom Browser?
It uses mathml for mathematics display.
Tim,
I did come across it although I did not fully take it in at the time, so much
to learn when first looking at the Axiom documentation. The documentation
probably needs a bit more overview at the start of volume 11 before jumping
into build instructions so that newcomers can see what its all about.
At the moment all of the energy is going into moving the source code
from the
tree-of-tiny-files format into books. It takes a while to move a
million-things-of-code,
along with rewrites and refactoring. I'm into the final stretch though
as I only have to
consolidate the interpreter and compiler. I hope to have it finished by
the end of the year.
Once that happens I will revisit each book with an eye to writing decent
documentation
See the book Lisp In Small Pieces for the ultimate goal I hope to
achieve. The books
only contain the source code for the most part. There will be much more
once I get rid
of the 1960s-PDP-11-64K-sea-of-tiny-little-files organization.
It does seem a very nice idea, using the browser for what it is good at and
use Axiom for doing the maths. Is this is what provides calculations for the
Axiom wiki? It would be a good way to show new users the advantages of Axiom
if there were a page where they could type in a formula ,or sequence of axiom
commands, and see the result immediately on the web page.
Actually when you run the browser from the Axiom command line you can
input expressions
into the browser and the computed result will open up a <DIV> in your
browser with the results.
This works now. All of the Javascript/AJAX/mathml/axiom-interpreter code
works so it is
easy to add new pages. Once I got a proof of concept working I went back
to building up
the other books.
Arthur Ralfs is the person to credit for the mathml connection.
More of the hyperdoc pages have to be converted and there are plans for
deeper documentation
in the browser format. The browser form already contains pages which are
not in hyperdoc.
There are newly written pages and code examples from the NIST Digital
Library of Mathematical Functions.
There are other pieces of work stacked up to put into the Axiom
browser. We really want
to support the bra and ket notation from quantum theory. (I've been
playing with that for a
while and it would be nice if Axiom supported it better.)
Looking at the dates it looks like development on this stopped around 2007, so
I guess interest must have declined, which seems a pity.
Using the command line interpreter has pros and cons, I wonder if this could
be a way to overcome the cons, for instance: allowing the user to enter
mathematical symbols such as the Greek alphabet directly into the formula
using buttons on the web page?
The browser will certainly support unicode I/O. The question would be
whether the lisp
system will support unicode, which would be nice because then you could
input/output
symbols like sigma as though it were any other character. Since Axiom is
listening on
the host end it can interpret unicode any way it likes.
Martin Baker
Tim
[Axiom-developer] Axiom January 2010 binaries are available, Tim Daly, 2010/01/30