Re: [Axiom-mail] gnuplot on axiom-wiki

[Bill Page]

Alasdair,

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:18 PM, you wrote:
> Actually, while axiom under windows still seems to be in a state of flux,
> it would be nice to have a plot-using-gnuplot interface as an alternative
> to axiom's graphics subsystem, which is not yet ported as a windows
> binary.
>

On several different Windows systems I have been running the binary
version of FriCAS compiled and packaged for Windows by Alfredo without
any serious problems. It only requires that you also install the
native Xming program in order to display hyperdoc and graphics. The
(minor) problems I have occur when I try to run this on a system which
is already otherwise occupied running other memory hungry applications
like Microsoft Virtual PC.  In that case I sometimes get a error when
starting Axiom due to already known issues with Windows memory
management. Reducing the number of running applications usually cures
the problem.

However, I do agree that having Axiom generate gnuplot graphics on
Windows would also be desirable. I think the code displayed at:

  http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/PlotMathAction

will work in the Windows environment. This code however, only
implements a small part of the overall graphics capabilities of Axiom
using gnuplot. Both Axiom graphics and gnuplot are able to do many
more exciting things. I would be very happy if other people were also
interested in extending the Axiom gnuplot interface to make more of
this available to the user.

Regards,
Bill Page.

> Alasdair
>
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Bill Page wrote:
>>
>> David,
>>
>> I have spent a little time polishing your work from last year on the
>> interface for gnuplot in mathaction. This page is based on you
>> original work but I have added new SPAD code to create gnuplot scripts
>> from Axiom graphics (draw) output. See:
>>
>> http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/PlotMathAction
>>
>> The main difference from what you were doing is that I have
>> incorporated gnuplottex into the wiki. This allows the LaTeX
>> post-processor to handle the presentation of the gnuplot graphics. I
>> would be very pleased if you had a few minutes to comment on this
>> approach and if time permits, to contribute a few more tests and/or
>> modifications to the code.
>>
>> Cc: Of course this also applies to all Axiom, FriCAS and OpenAxiom users!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bill Page.
>>
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