Re: [Maxima-discuss] Fwd: font size in eps, pdf, png terminals with draw

[Gunter K. <gu...@pe...>]

If the question is if files that have been created using wxMaxima are of any use for users that don't own wxMaxima: .wxmx files are the technically .zip files containing an 
XML file that contains Maxima's input and output. These files are pretty much wxMaxima-specific.. 
Alternativel wxMaxima can save the session as .wxm file. A wxm file can be read by maxima and makes sense, if opened in any text editor: It contains Maxima's input and maxima comments that tell wxMaxima where to add a text cell and where to add chapter marks. I guess you want to use that one for your purpose.

Kind regards,

   Gunter.

Am 6. August 2021 20:31:38 MESZ schrieb Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...>:
>Hi Sheldon, I've taken the liberty of forwarding your message to the
>mailing list since I won't be able to devote enough time to it until
>tomorrow. In the meantime maybe others have some suggestions.
>
>About just getting readline for a version of maxima which doesn't
>already have it, you can install rlwrap separately and then apply it
>to any program to get readline capabilities, one just says
>
>rlwrap maxima
>
>at the command line. I think rlwrap might be installable via yum on centos.
>
>About wxmaxima, I'm not sure I understand what you mean about
>packages. Do you mean notebooks? If that's not it, maybe you can
>explain more.
>
>best,
>Robert
>
>---------- Forwarded message ---------
>From: Sheldon Newhouse <sen...@gm...>
>Date: Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 7:46 PM
>Subject: Re: [Maxima-discuss] font size in eps, pdf, png terminals with draw
>To: Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...>
>
>
>I am using centos 7 with vmware player on a virtual machine in windows
>10.  That is only because I have access to the same OS on a
>super-computer (which I don't really use much any more).  The maxima
>version:
> Linux version 3.10.0-1160.11.1.el7.x86_64
>(moc...@kb...) (gcc version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red
>Hat 4.8.5-44) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Fri Dec 18 16:34:56 UTC 2020
>
>I am tempted to go back to ubuntu.
>Several issues:
> 1)  I don't see how to install wxmaxima on in this system.  I want to
>experiment with the 'package' type of object and wxmaxima to send code
>to some of my mathematical colleagues who use windows software. It
>seems like the wxmaxima packaging is like
>      Mathematica.  Is it worth bothering with?
> 2) I used to compile my own version of maxima--giving both xmaxima
>and readline( e.g. rmaxima) using carnegie-mellon lisp.  I have
>forgotten how to do that, and, don't know how to install the
>kernel-headers, etc, for centos 7.  I like the history use of xmaxima
>and readline.
>3) I found that I could get around the font size issue in my original
>post about png, pdf, etc., by using 'png and gimp to rescale the
>figure.  But, I would prefer to stay within  maxima to deal with the
>fonts.  Gunther sent a suggestion that I will play with.
>Any suggestions are welcome.
>
>BTW, a long time ago, I asked about implementing some form of 'grep'
>within maxima and you sent me a tool using lambda functions.
>I use it all the time now.  Thanks.
>    It helps me document functions and names of other tools.
>   For instance, if I have a function called 'plot_sin()' which does a
>plot involving the sin function, then I
>   can define something like
>     plot_sin_usg: print(" plot_sin() does these things. Here are
>examples, etc. ");
>    Then,  grepv("plot") gives that output of all values involving 'plot'.
>   Is there a better way to document items?    stringout is not too
>useful for me, since most of my sessions have a lot of errors and I
>would have to clean the stringout file and this takes much time.
>Thanks,
> -Sheldon
>
>
>On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 2:28 PM Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Sheldon, what OS are you working on? Also, what version of Maxima is installed.
>>
>> The reason I ask is that the possible fonts differ between platforms,
>> and at least for Gnuplot, "arial" is not recognized on macOS. I forget
>> exactly how I got a list of available fonts on macOS. Also, plot2d was
>> updated substantially in the most recent version and it might or might
>> not affect the configuration options.
>>
>> best,
>>
>> Robert
>
>
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