Re: [Axiom-developer] Front page esthetic

2006-08-05 Thread Jay Belanger
"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... >> ... >> > | 2) The Axiom Wiki FrontPage has more graphics including an >> > |example Axiom output graphic. >> > >> > That, from my perspective, contributes to the "visual load". >> >> I agree with this, > > :( Well, I really like the example ... in

Re: [Axiom-developer] tex to mathml

2006-08-05 Thread Bob McElrath
Arthur Ralfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working on a tex to mathml program in C. It's rudimentary and > only meant to transform the stuff between the $$ signs that comes > out of axiom so it can be displayed in firefox. However it seems > to work so I thought I should make it avai

[Axiom-developer] pamphlet problems

2006-08-05 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
In order to remove the need to distribute a version of noweb with Axiom, we must modify the sources a bit. I've run every .pamphlet file from silver/branches/build-improvements through noweb. There are the following problems notangle src/hyper/token.pamphlet > dummy undefined chunk name: <>

[Axiom-developer] rhxtangle

2006-08-05 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Hi Gaby, it turned out that it is not totally easy to mimic the behaviour of notangle, in particular if multiline chunks have to be indented correctly. Below you find rhxtangle.pl.pamphlet. I hope you find it useful to drop the initial noweb dependency for the configuration phase of Axiom.

RE: [Axiom-developer] tex to mathml

2006-08-05 Thread Bill Page
On August 5, 2006 6:07 PM Arthur Ralfs wrote: > > I'm working on a tex to mathml program in C. It's rudimentary > and only meant to transform the stuff between the $$ signs that > comes out of axiom so it can be displayed in firefox. However > it seems to work so I thought I should make it avail

[Axiom-developer] tex to mathml

2006-08-05 Thread Arthur Ralfs
Hello, I'm working on a tex to mathml program in C. It's rudimentary and only meant to transform the stuff between the $$ signs that comes out of axiom so it can be displayed in firefox. However it seems to work so I thought I should make it available in case someone was interested. My quest

Re: [Axiom-developer] Translation of the interp to lisp

2006-08-05 Thread root
> A question Tim, if I may. In looking at sys-pkg.lisp, it seems like > there are a rather large number of import and export commands contained > there. Is this normal in lisp to have to hand-import and hand-export > so many symbols? Also, I'm a bit confused by the BOOT and VMLISP > package rela

Re: [Axiom-developer] Some latex packages that may help with multiple individual files in books

2006-08-05 Thread C Y
--- Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) If you need to edit the pamphlet files to make them work in the > context of a big book. That sounds as if you have too much time to > spare. Not really. I take it you regard the idea as frivolous? > 2) Where are our priorities? Improving LaTe

Re: [Axiom-developer] Translation of the interp to lisp

2006-08-05 Thread C Y
--- root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2. I noticed a lot of implementation specific code having to do > > with things like (system:getenv $AXIOM) - is the plan to write some > > generic macros to handle these operations and get all of the > > implementation specific logic into one file? > > An

[Axiom-developer] [build-improvements] Support traditional build commands

2006-08-05 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Hi, This patchlet adds support for the traditional ./configure && make && make install There no longer should be a need to set and export the variables AXIOM and PATH before doing make. The other version I had was doing a major overhall of toplevel Makefile. To allow people follow th

[Axiom-developer] patches

2006-08-05 Thread Frithjof Schulze
Hi, here are some minor modifications of bookvol1 and ComputerTutorial. In bookvol1 there were two nearly identical sections about the "%" macro. I removed one and moved a short explanation to the place "%" is used the first time. In ComputerTutorial I changed all occurences of "\<\<" in verbati

[Axiom-developer] Toplevel Makefile.dvi

2006-08-05 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Hi Tim, The toplevel Makefile.dvi gets copied in the installation directory twice: * once at part of all: noweb ${MNT}/${SYS}/bin/Makefile.pamphlet @ echo 1 making a ${SYS} system, PART=${PART} SUBPART=${SUBPART} @ echo 2 Environment ${ENV}

Re: [Axiom-developer] Problem building SIlver Axiom on Gentoo Linux

2006-08-05 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | patched. fixed in the next release. --t | > | | > | (no, i still don't have SVN working. there is no time) | > | > Then, please could send a patch to the list? | | | I now have a working subversion and will look at keeping silver | up to date with patch

Re: [Axiom-developer] Front page esthetic

2006-08-05 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
On 08/04/2006 11:16 PM, Bill Page wrote: Ralf, On August 4, 2006 12:23 PM you wrote: ... But may I ask you why there is still a link "Literate Source" on the FrontPage? What were your reasons for leaving it just next to "Source Code"? I think that is confusing. There should be just ONE link

Re: [Axiom-developer] I would like to work

2006-08-05 Thread Antoine Hersen
> I guess we should make some kind of effort to coordinate this> and make sure everything is upto date and in sync before deciding > how best to proceed with large scale edits. No?Yes. Now we have Gold=stable, Silver=unstable, and several testingbranches. See http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/AxiomSo

Re: [Axiom-developer] Some latex packages that may help with multiple individual files in books

2006-08-05 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Oh, that might be true. But what does that help if you want to combine pamphlets from different authors who use conflicting latex packages??? Obviously, it doesn't. However, I'm hopeful that such conflicts will either be minimal and easily resolved, or we can improve the latex packages themse

Re: [Axiom-developer] I would like to work

2006-08-05 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
See my previous email about the http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/book--main--1 pamphlet files. All of these volumes can be updated directly through the web. We can create diffs of these against the versions in the current source distribution and vice versa. Maybe we could even hack together a go