[Axiom-developer] RE: [Axiom-mail] Two beginner questions

[Bill Page]

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.