[Axiom-developer] [Axiom-mail] \begin{axiom} latex on windows

[Ryan Krauss]

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I can't find any documentation on the pamphlet format.  Can you tell me 
where I can find out more?

Thanks,

Ryan

Bob McElrath wrote:
> Ryan Krauss address@hidden wrote:
> 
>>I found this example on the axiom-developer mailing list from about a 
>>year ago:
>>
>> \begin{axiom-input}
>> R1:=matrix([[cos a, sin a, 0],[-sin a, cos a, 0],[0, 0, 1]])
>> \end{axiom-input}
>> Next we define a rotation around the Y axis by a rotation angle of b 
>> \begin{axiom-input}
>> R2:=matrix([[cos b, 0, -sin b],[0, 1, 0],[sin b, 0, cos b]])
>> \end{axiom-input}
>> The we compose them (order is important) to form the single
>> rotation equivalent to first rotating around X, then around
>> the new, displaced Y. 
>> \begin{axiom-input}
>> R:=R1*R2
>> \end{axiom-input}
>>
>>I would very much like to be able to write LaTeX documents like this on 
>>Windows XP.  Has anyone done this?
> 
> 
> The MathAction wiki
> (http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/FrontPage)
> allows documents like this.  It runs on the zope server, and some code
> pasted together by myself and Bill Page calls axiom on the server to
> render the document.
> 
> Additionally the "pamphlet" format used natively by axiom supports
> running axiom commands, using a similar syntax.
> 
> Finally, we are currently working on a more "worksheet" style interface,
> and the first iteration I did was a modification of tiddlywiki
> (http://www.tiddlywiki.com) to support axiom and jsMath.  (it runs axiom
> without a server using some javascript tricks in firefox)  However this
> will definitely not work on windows.
> 
> 
>>If not, I am a bit of a Python programmer and I was thinking one way to 
>>make it work would be to have Python parse the tex file and take 
>>whatever is between the \begin{axiom} and \end{axiom} statements and 
>>create an input file for axiom with the output set by the file to go to 
>>numbered .tex files.  Python would then replace the \begin{axiom}... 
>>with \begin{equation} \input{....###} (i.e. the output files from axiom).
> 
> 
> The code is all python but does not run standalone, currently.  Trivial
> modifications could be made to make it run standalone.
> 
> 
>>But in order to make something like this work, Python needs to be able 
>>to call axiom and tell it to run the script (and possibly close axiom 
>>afterward).  Is there a way to do this on Windows?  Can it be done with 
>>a dos command?
> 
> 
> I can't comment on windows...
> 
> If you're interested in working on this, please join axiom-developer!
> ;)
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics]
> 
>     "One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen
>     these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding
>     fathers used in the great struggle for independence." --Charles A. Beard


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