Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: noweb "bug" (was: article "standard" header/footer)

2005-12-15 Thread root
i took your suggestion and rewrote plttest.c to add the line: long findstring(char *a, char *b); but it had no effect. when you built axiom did you modify the makefiles to use GCLVERSION=gcl-2.6.8pre or did you build the lisp by hand and copy it over? or did you use your debian mod and compil

RE: [Axiom-developer] hyperlinked algebra

2005-12-15 Thread Bill Page
On December 15, 2005 5:46 AM Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > ... > Is there any chance to get this translated to html? As I have > read GraphViz can output SVG, but I have no idea how to use it. > Yes. GraphViz can generate several different formats that are compatible with HTML. SVG might be interesting

RE: [Axiom-developer] hyperlinked algebra

2005-12-15 Thread Derek Rayside
Hi Bill, I am aware of ladot, but I have not used it. A feature request such as this is just the sort of impetus I need to investigate the matter :) I'll take a look at it next week. Yes, you will definitely run into tex's file handle limitations. Basically you can draw slightly over a dozen gra

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: This sentence is not a Lie

2005-12-15 Thread root
> > > Sorry if we're not pulling our weight Tim > > > > Was the original post a comment about people not pulling their > > weight? > > Not really. I read it (just my interpretation) as Tim being frustrated > with so many opinions without accompanying code, and I'm certainly > guilty of that. S

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: noweb "bug" (was: article "standard" header/footer)

2005-12-15 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! Odd, I see: Loading /Users/camm/axiom/obj/MACOSX/interp/cformat.o start address -T 0xccf500 Finished loading /Users/camm/axiom/obj/MACOSX/interp/cformat.o Loading /Users/camm/axiom/obj/MACOSX/interp/cfuns.o start address -T 0xc41880 Finished loading /Users/camm/axiom/obj/MACOSX/inter

[Axiom-developer] Re: This sentence is not a Lie

2005-12-15 Thread C Y
--- Jay Belanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > C Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Sorry if we're not pulling our weight Tim > > Was the original post a comment about people not pulling their > weight? Not really. I read it (just my interpretation) as Tim being frustrated with so many opi

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: noweb "bug" (was: article "standard" header/footer)

2005-12-15 Thread root
different error message. there is progress. now it is loading the lisp code that was compiled but it fails loading cfuns.o which is C code that gets compiled and linked into the image. the source is in src/lib/cfuns.c.pamphlet. the message is Loading /home/daly/macosx46/obj/MACOSX/interp/cfuns.o E

[Axiom-developer] typo in the error msg

2005-12-15 Thread root
sorry, i am hand-copying the error message and there was a minor typo = different error message. there is progress. now it is loading the lisp code that was compiled but it fails loading cfuns.o which is C code that gets compiled

This sentence is not a Lie. (was Re: [Axiom-developer] this is open source)

2005-12-15 Thread Jay Belanger
C Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> axiom is free software. design it, hack it, polish it, test it, >> document it, and send patches (or arch changesets). you're >> allowed to do anything you want and have no reason to depend >> on me for anything (except t

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: noweb "bug" (was: article "standard" header/footer)

2005-12-15 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! OK, think I got it now, will know for sure in a bit. Might want to try a fresh update of 2.6.8pre at this point. Please keep me posted. Take care, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > still fails at the same spot in the same way. > > > OK, please try again with > > > > export CVSRO

RE: [Axiom-developer] hyperlinked algebra

2005-12-15 Thread Bill Page
On December 15, 2005 12:57 PM Tim Daly wrote: > Bill Page wrote: > > I believe that > > > > foo\n bar <==> foo\n{}bar > > > > are identical. No? > > nope. the first from will generate >foo\n bar > the second form will generate >foo\nbar > ??? I don't think so. Try this: \documen

RE: [Axiom-developer] hyperlinked algebra

2005-12-15 Thread Bill Page
Derek, That is great news. Thank you very much for this work. As Ralf said, we plan to make extensive use of this in our documentation of Axiom. The combination of GraphViz with LaTeX and hyperref links is very convenient. I am aware of, but have not yet experimented with another extension LaTeX-

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: this is open source

2005-12-15 Thread Bill Page
On December 15, 2005 5:13 AM Matthias Heiler wrote: > > "Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > They can do that privately in their own source code environments > > or they can do it more publicly via the Axiom Wiki. All types > > of Axiom-related programming are now possible through the w

Re: [Axiom-developer] hyperlinked algebra

2005-12-15 Thread root
> I believe that > > foo\n bar <==> foo\n{}bar > > are identical. No? nope. the first from will generate foo\n bar the second form will generate foo\nbar t ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/

RE: [Axiom-developer] hyperlinked algebra

2005-12-15 Thread Bill Page
On December 15, 2005 10:35 AM Tim Daly (root) wrote: > > in tex if you want a 2 character command (say \n) but no > space you write: > > foo\n{}bar ==> foo\nbar > > the {} tells tex that \n has ended and has no argument. > I believe that foo\n bar <==> foo\n{}bar are identical. No? Regar

Re: [Axiom-developer] hyperlinked algebra

2005-12-15 Thread root
in tex if you want a 2 character command (say \n) but no space you write: foo\n{}bar ==> foo\nbar the {} tells tex that \n has ended and has no argument. t ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/l

[Axiom-developer] Re: noweb "bug"

2005-12-15 Thread root
> OK. Could you tell me how recent the sources are in book--main--1. > I have unfortunately never worked with tla except for 'tla get' and I am > learning very slowly. re: learning. no problem. you could even document it :-) > > If you don't mind, I'll put bookvol4 into src/doc and change every

[Axiom-developer] Re: noweb "bug"

2005-12-15 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
if you're interested in volume 4 go for it. send email and i'll help you with the details and the writing. the book--main--1 branch is probably better than the axiom--main--1 branch because we can update more frequently and the changes can be broken for a long time. we can also mirror them in src/

[Axiom-developer] Re: noweb "bug" (was: article "standard" header/footer)

2005-12-15 Thread root
> But what matters is that there is just a link on the website telling > about book--main--1. I cannot remember that I have read much about the > different volumes that should be written. So why should I check out > book--main--1 if I am new to Axiom and just want to learn how I could > contrib

RE: [Axiom-developer] this is open source

2005-12-15 Thread C Y
Heh - maddeningly enough, it seems to be the rule that the most interesting languages have the least support. Lisp had the misfortune to be just sufficiently unpopular in the early to mid ninties that it never got the plethera of graphics libraries that other languages got, and that had proved dif

[Axiom-developer] Re: noweb "bug" (was: article "standard" header/footer)

2005-12-15 Thread root
> it is just that any bug or fix I find in noweb will be sent to Norman > Ramsey. I will never modify the version that comes with Axiom. > I guess many people would think that way. If Tim has enough time to > maintain that version, fine with me. if you sent your fix to norman and he accepted it

[Axiom-developer] problem at http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/FrontPage

2005-12-15 Thread keith.briggs
I'm getting either "Bad gateway" or "No space left on device" every time I try to post on your wiki. Keith ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

Re: [Axiom-developer] hyperlinked algebra

2005-12-15 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Page, Bill wrote: On Tuesday, December 13, 2005 12:27 PM Ralf Hemmecke wrote: Bill Page wrote: Doing the same thing with \n instead of \- would be a bit more complicated. But I think for LaTeX-speakers \- is more natural anyway. Hmmm ... maybe '\n ' would be better - more compatible with the

[Axiom-developer] README of axiom--main--1

2005-12-15 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Dear Tim, I've just browsed through axiom--main--1/README. To me it seems there is some contradiction. See below. Ralf The src directory consists of human-written, system-independent code. You can copy this directory (and the top-level makefiles) and have a complete build system. *** Nothing in

[Axiom-developer] Re: noweb "bug" (was: article "standard" header/footer)

2005-12-15 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
re: advocacy ok. you're advocating a change. No, I am just complaining that you did something wrong 3 years ago. It was Ralf who was advocating a change. I just agreed with him. ;) Hmm, was I advocating? Well, my point of view is to minimise the effort of developing/maintaining axiom. As

[Axiom-developer] [#225 Series examples improvement idea] misunderstanding of the 'series' operation

2005-12-15 Thread kratt6
Changes http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/225SeriesExamplesImprovementIdea/diff -- Status: open => closed -- forwarded from http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu