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From: | Bas Spitters |
Subject: | Re: [Texmacs-dev] plugins |
Date: | Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:09:06 +0200 |
User-agent: | KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.27-11-generic; KDE/4.2.2; i686; ; ) |
http://www.openmath.org/ and http://www.w3.org/Math/ http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/about/authors.en.html there is work going on to include this in texmacs ... > I think that the possibility to have a common open source interface to > different mathematical packages is an awesome feature of Texmacs, > something really unique, but a stronger effort is needed to make it work > reliably, taking also into account software upgrades, etc. > > In principle it would be nice to have some degree of unification, for > instance one should be able to copy and paste mathematical expressions > between different mathematical packages. > > That would make different mathematical packages interoperable by > providing a common translation based on texmacs. It would then become > extremely easy to check for instance with Mathematica a computation > previously performed with Maple or Axiom. > > To achieve that, it would be necessary to provide a precise > specification of a standard format to describe mathematical expressions, > to be used both in the input and output of all texmacs plugins. That > would free users e.g. from the necessity to remember that the same > integral can be > > int(sin(x),x=1..100) in Maple, > integrate(sin(x),x=1..100) in Axiom, > integrate(sin(x),x,1,100) in Maxima, > Integrate[Sin[x],{x,1,100}] in Mathematica, > etc. > > At the moment, it is not even possible to paste back an output as an > input to the same package. As an example, if I write at the Maple prompt > > \frac 2 * \pi (down arrow) 3 (right arrow) (enter) > > I get as an output: > > 2/3pi > > (i.e.: 2/3<space|0.25spc><pi> ) > > which cannot obviously be fed back to any other plugin, not even to > Maple itself. > > This kind of Maple output (which is the common way fractional factors > are printed by the plugin) is also quite confusing in practice, because > it tends to be read as > > 2/(3 pi). > > With the same input, the Axiom plugin gives > > <frac|2|3>p*i > > which is quite unsatisfactory. > > The Mathematica plugin gives: > > <frac|2<pi>|3> > > which is missing a "*" sign. > > Only the Maxima plugin gives the correct answer: > > <frac|2*<pi>|3> > > > > Andrea > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Texmacs-dev mailing list > address@hidden > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev |
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