Thanks Martin, as always, for your unstinting and generous help. What then,
in your estimation, are the minimal requirements (virtual machine, X server,
whatever) to run a complete Axiom - including graphics and HyperDoc - on
windows?
Thanks,
Alasdair
On 18 Jun 2007 08:24:33 +0200, Martin Rubey <address@hidden>
wrote:
> "Alasdair McAndrew" <address@hidden > writes:
>
> > 1) What is the current state of using HyperDoc (or any other sort of
help
> > browser) under windows - in particular with Axiom-0.1.4?
>
> * Out of the box there is nothing.
>
> * There is an experimental port by Tim Daly, with the important drawback
that
> there is no connection to Axiom, i.e., browse does *not* work
>
> * There is the possibility of running axiom within a virtual machine, as
> proposed by Bill Page and Alfredo Portes. I'd recommend that one. This
is
> also the only way to get graphics on windows. Furthermore, if you are
> interested in combinatorics, Polymake and therefore my Polymake-wrapper
only
> works on linux, too. Together with axiom.el and SPADEDIT for gnu emacs
this
> makes quite a usable environment even for windows users. (After
clicking on
> gnu emacs, they just need to press "Alt" then "x", type "axiom" and
> everything should work.
>
> * There is the possibly half working hyperdoc replacement by myself, which
> needs an axiom process dedicated for documentation -- but which you can
run
> in the background, so you won't even notice. So far it only can browse
> operations, and it's not really tested on windows. Even if it is not
that
> much interesting for production work at the moment, I'd urge you to try
it
> and send me your experiences.
>
> > 2) If I inadvertently quit HyperDoc while running Axiom, I can restart
it
> > with )hd. But )hd doesn't provide a socket connection; this new
HyperDoc is
> > "not connected to Axiom". Is there any way of starting a "connected"
> > HyperDoc from an already-running Axiom?
>
> No, but I'd love to see a fix for that bug, too.
>
> All the best,
>
> Martin
>
>
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