Re: [Maxima-discuss] qm-maxima package

[ehm <eri...@gm...>]

Hi Daniel,

I'm sorry you're having trouble with the package. Let's see if we can
figure it out.

The top level file "qm.mac" loads the other .mac and .lisp files. But
file_search_maxima needs to see the whole directory. I'm on Linux, but
I think the following might work with slight changes.

In my maxima-init.mac file I have:

/* ---------------------------------------------------------- */
file_search_maxima :
append(["/home/ehm/math/Maxima/share/**/*.mac"],file_search_maxima )$

file_search_demo :
append(["/home/ehm/math/Maxima/share/**/*.mac"],file_search_demo )$
/* ---------------------------------------------------------- */

I'm not sure how to specify wildcards for the subdirectories on
Windows. Maybe try

file_search_maxima :
append(["D:/USERS/wxMaxima/**/*.mac"],file_search_maxima)$

If someone else is on Windows and knows how to set this please let us
know!

-Eric

On Tue, 2024-10-15 at 12:36 +0000, Daniel Volinski via Maxima-discuss
wrote:
>  
> Hi Eric,
> 
> Thank you very much for this package!
> 
> However, I was not able to use it yet.
> I downloaded the package from github, I unzip it and put it in
> D:\USERS\wxMaxima\qm-maxima. I'm using Windows 10.
> I used qm_examples-1.wxmx in directory docs\examples
> I save it as qm_examples-1.wxm in which I did some changes.
> 
> When I run qm_examples-1.wxm with no changes, I get
> file_search1: qm not found in 
> file_search_maxima,file_search_lisp.
> This is obvious because I'm not pointing to the directory
> 
> So I added load("D:/USERS/wxMaxima/qm-maxima/qm");
> instead of load(qm); but I get
> file_search1: "qm.lisp" not found in 
> file_search_maxima,file_search_lisp.
> 
> I change it to load("D:/USERS/wxMaxima/qm-maxima/qm.mac");
> but I get:
> file_search1: "qm.lisp" not found in 
> file_search_maxima,file_search_lisp.
> 
> I added:
> file_search_maxima:cons(sconcat("D:/USERS/wxMaxima/qm-
> maxima/###.{lisp,mac,mc}"),file_search_maxima)$
> file_search_lisp:cons(sconcat("D:/USERS/wxMaxima/qm-
> maxima/###.{lisp,mac,mc}"),file_search_lisp)$
> before the load("D:/USERS/wxMaxima/qm-maxima/qm.mac"); but I get
> file_search1: "qm-index.lisp" not found in 
> file_search_maxima,file_search_lisp.
> 
> This qm-index.lisp file is in the docs directory. It seems odd that
> the
> normal functioning of the package depends on a file in the docs
> directory.
> 
> I added:
> file_search_maxima:cons(sconcat("D:/USERS/wxMaxima/qm-
> maxima/docs/###.{lisp,mac,mc}"),file_search_maxima)$
> file_search_lisp:cons(sconcat("D:/USERS/wxMaxima/qm-
> maxima/docs/###.{lisp,mac,mc}"),file_search_lisp)$
> I get:
> While evaluating the form starting at line 5, column 0
>   of #P"D:/USERS/wxMaxima/qm-maxima/docs/qm-index-html.lisp":; 
> ; compilation unit aborted
> ;   caught 1 fatal ERROR condition
> loadfile: failed to load D:/USERS/wxMaxima/qm-maxima/docs/qm-index-
> html.lisp
> 
> At this point I gave up and decided to write this letter.
> What is the proper way to point at your package?
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Daniel Volinski
> 
> 
>  
>  
>  
>  En viernes, 11 de octubre de 2024, 23:31:40 GMT+3, ehm
> <eri...@gm...> escribió: 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm announcing the availability of the qm-maxima package for
> performing
> quantum mechanical calculations in a finite dimensional Hilbert
> space.
> The package is located on my Github site: 
> https://github.com/QMeqGR/qm-maxima
> 
> Thanks to Robert Dodier and Barton Willis for their contributions
> that
> have greatly improved the package.
> 
> I've expanded the functionality considerably since I first posted
> about
> the package here. It is geared toward undergrad and graduate students
> learning QM. The pdf doc is nearing 30 pages and gives lots of detail
> on how the package works and how to use it. Using the package, I can
> solve probably 60% of the problems I assign in my undergraduate
> quantum
> class.
> 
> I bring it up now because I submitted an abstract to the American
> Association of Physics Teachers (AATP) meeting scheduled for Jan 2025
> to present the package. I'll have a 12 minute talk and I plan to
> spend
> about 3 slides on Maxima itself before talking about my package.
> (There
> are a few things I wanted to bring up with everyone before I put my
> Maxima slides together, but I'll post about that separately.)
> 
> So if any of you are interested in playing with the package, or just
> looking through the examples given in the docs, I would appreciate
> any
> feedback!
> 
> Best regards,
> Eric
> 
> 
> 
> 
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