On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 11:56 AM Kostas Oikonomou <kostas.oikonomo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > To answer your questions, I am not a very sophisticated Fricas > user, so I don't write SPAD code.
:) Well, you are already using FriCAS so I would say that you are rather sophisticated! The SPAD compiler is frustrating by modern standards but the language itself is quite straightforward, albeit a bit overly pedantic, compared to the interpreter. I think most people could easily learn to program in SPAD from a few basic examples. > But, more importantly, TeXmacs is not really a programmer's editor > like Emacs. It is an editor for scientific (technical) documents. What I had in mind is perhaps little like the literate programming ideal that was promulgated by the original Axiom parent project (and still in use there). I never liked the idea much when it came to maintaining existing Axiom system code but it still makes sense to me in the case of the activity of scientific application programming itself. > (Nevertheless, it knows how to typeset fragments of many > programming languages so they look good when included in > a document. By "programming languages" we also mean > computer algebra systems.) I agree. > So for writing SPAD code I would use Emacs, or some other > IDE, if you prefer. Wel, OK. There are valid arguments however that code and documentation really belong together, especially in the case of research. What I had in mind perhaps could be done in TeXmacs by inventing a new FriCAS session type just for the compiler. The main difference would be that the contents of a SPAD session would be compiled instead of being interpreted. > > With respect to including graphics in a document, there > is a sophisticated interface that handles eps, pdf, png. > You can access it by the button with the picture of a tree > in the second row of the buttons at the top of the window. Hmm, FriCAS does have some preliminary support for the generation of GNUplot input data. I wonder if that could be used together with the GNU plot plugin for TeXmacs - or some other similar graphics plugin? I think Kurt and Ralf are/were thinking of something like this for the FriCAS Jupyter interface. Bill Page. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to fricas-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/CAC6x94T5mMCHLbJgDpw88N_V5zvteBx3pg7BgE9gndruCoZWZg%40mail.gmail.com.
