[Axiom-developer] more graphics

[Bob McElrath]

Don't you hate it when people reply to their own posts?

I'm new to the lisp world, but the Functional PostScript library:

    http://www.scsh.net/resources/fps.html

is a scheme extension embedding postscript operators.  Note:

    We'd like to have a back-end that renders directly to the screen.
    This could be done by linking FPS's Scheme with the free Ghostscript
    C library of PostScript primitives to render to X. Then we'd have a
    high-level, device-independent graphics system for doing interactive
    screen graphics.

A postscript-driven rendering engine seems an elegant way to unify
axiom's interactive graphics with lisp, texmacs, and
latexwiki/mathaction.

Bob McElrath address@hidden wrote:
> Cross-forwarding this interesting post.
> 
> TeXmacs uses scheme as its extension language.  Since scheme is a
> dialect of lisp, can scheme programs be run in a lisp interpreter
> without modification?  Could the texmacs interpreter be replaced with
> gcl or one of the more comprehensive lisps that runs axiom?  Could then
> data structures used by texmacs (and any graphing component it may
> evolve) be shared by texmacs and axiom?
--
Cheers,
Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics]

    "It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the
    votes." -- Joseph Stalin

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