[Texmacs-dev] Re: improved Reduce interface, needs GO

[Andreas Seidl]

> 1. Reduce-3.8 (for Linux) contains tmprint.b, but does not contain the
> source from which it was produced.

Last summer I suggested to Winfried Neun that the new Reduce version could 
be "TeXmacs-ready", i.e. load tmprint if the variable $TEXMACS_REDUCE_PATH 
is set. The version installed by our system administrator does not contain 
this feature, however, so I am in a process of finding out what happens.

Try to execute the following in a bash, and please tell me if it works:

----- begin ------
mkdir -p /tmp/tmprint
cd /tmp/tmprint
wget http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~seidl/public/bin/tmprint.b
cd $HOME
mv .reducerc .reducerc-`date "+%Y%M%d-%T"`
cat > .reducerc <<EOF
lisp <<
   % ...
   loaddirectories!* := nconc({"","/tmp/tmprint/"},loaddirectories!*);
   if getenv("TEXMACS_REDUCE_PATH") then load tmprint$
   % ...
> > $
end;
%
EOF
----- end -----

> It seems that the new source tmprint.red is not compatible with
> Reduce-3.8. Is this so?

This cannot be so. Yet another possibility is, that Redfront, which is 
loaded automatically awith Reduce 3.8 is the problem.

> From what source has tmprint.b in the distribution
> been generated, and why isn't this source included in the Reduce
> distribution?

Winfried Neun knows this.

Best Regards,
Andreas
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