Re: [Aimmath-developers] AIM and Maple 9 not good news

[Jon B. <jbr...@wo...>]

Thanks. I'll make the changes to my files. Someone might also want to 
begin exploring Maple 9's codegen[MathML] feature.

On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 12:46  PM, Greg Gamble wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Jon Breitenbucher wrote:
>> Do you or maybe other developers have an idea of how many files this
>> will impact? I'll poke around and see what I find.
>
> It should only be .mpl files in the WEB-INF/maple directory and
> subdirectories. I've just done the changes to a local develop_2_1 copy.
> Essentially, what I did was:
>
>   1. globally substituted LaTeX( for `aim/LaTeX`(
>   2. globally substituted `LaTeX/ for `aim/LaTeX/
>   3. moved the `aim/LaTeX... commands to aim/LaTeX.mpl
>   4. added: aim/LaTeX   to PackageList
>   5. added:
>
> if Config['MapleVersion'] <= 8 then
>   `Package/Assign`(`LaTeX/trim`        ,"", `aim/LaTeX/trim`):
>   `Package/Assign`(LaTeX               ,"", `aim/LaTeX`):
>   `Package/Assign`(`LaTeX/Subs`        ,"", `aim/LaTeX/Subs`):
>   `Package/Assign`(`LaTeX/Wrap`        ,"", `aim/LaTeX/Wrap`):
>   `Package/Assign`(`LaTeX/Display`     ,"", `aim/LaTeX/Display`):
>   `Package/Assign`(`LaTeX/DisplayParse`,"", `aim/LaTeX/DisplayParse`):
> fi;
>
>      to aim/LaTeX.mpl so that the old names are still available in
>      versions of Maple up to 8.
>
> I've tested it out. It seems to be be working, except that I'm
> getting a weird error:
>
> Error reading image count file
> /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/AIM/imagecache/count: file or directory does 
> not
> exist
>
> on some questions I compile. I'm not convinced that whatever's causing
> this wasn't there before. Has anyone else observed this error or know 
> what
> I should look? Would you like me to commit my changes, anyway? ... or
> maybe I can send you the changed files as a .zip or .tar.gz file.


>
> I haven't a clue what could be causing this. When you hit Mark a bit of
> javascript is invoked:
>
> function Mark() {
>  f = document.aimform;
>  f.Command.value = 'try/Question';
>  f.Action.value  = 'Mark';
>  f.target = '_self';
>  f.submit();
> };
>
> ... perhaps you can work out from there what happens.
>
>   Regards,
>   Greg

I haven't tried Marking a question. All I have tried is using the Try 
feature. So I may look at that. What is so strange is that things like 
2/5 or Pi are parsed correctly as answers, but exp and ln are 
definitely parsed as pxe and nl. It also happens that we do mess with 
latex/exp and latex/ln. I may try something with an answer of sin(x) as 
a check.
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Jon Breitenbucher
The College of Wooster
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
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