Geometry diagrams / function plotting in Windows

greycouncil · July 21, 2020, 3:51am

I can’t figure out how the plugins work (specifically, asymptote and eukleides or ANY plugin that’ll let me draw geometric figures and/or y=x^2 etc). I’ve looked around at some of the guides, and haven’t really managed to figure it out.

For example, I installed Asymptote. I checked the plugins folder in Texmacs, and everything seems to be in order. But I can’t see Asymptote in the texmacs menus. What am I missing?

re4zuaFe · July 21, 2020, 11:43am

eukleides does not work for the moment, according to https://github.com/texmacs/plugins

I know two approaches to use these plugins:

interactively: Insert -> Session, choose the plugin that you want (say, Asymptote);
by script: Insert -> Fold -> Executable, choose the plugin. You need to press Shift + Enter for multi-line scripts.

greycouncil · July 21, 2020, 9:12pm

Method 1:
Insert -> Session -> the only options available are:
Scheme
Feynmf
Remote
Other

There is no option for asymptote.

Method 2:
Only options are Feynmf and Scheme.

Why can’t I see Asymptote as an option? I have a clean install. I’ve installed Texmacs on work PC and home PC, and same problem in both.

re4zuaFe · July 21, 2020, 10:19pm

This is abnormal. It might be helpful to write down your TeXmacs version, your operating systems, where you get TeXmacs and how you installed TeXmacs.

Yibbou · July 21, 2020, 10:55pm

Have you installed Asymptote on your computer ?

greycouncil · July 23, 2020, 6:01am

Texmacs version: 1.99.13 (both at home and at work)
O/S at home: Win 7
O/S at work: Win 10
I got TeXmacs from the official website - https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/download/windows.en.html Installed it normally, default directory, etc.

I honestly don’t think I did anything unusual Default settings all the way through.

I installed Asymptote AFTER installing texmacs. I hope that doesn’t matter? I’m going to re-install texmacs now, after re-downloading it.

edit:
I uninstalled Texmacs, re-downloaded it, installed it to c:\texmacs (previous it was in prog files x86), asymptote was definitely installed before i started installing texmacs, and I still don’t see any plugins apart from the ones I mentioned earlieri n this thread.

Yibbou · July 23, 2020, 11:51am

Hi,

Try to declare your asymptote path (something like c:/program files/asymptote) in the windows Environment Variables.

regards

greycouncil · July 23, 2020, 12:11pm

Hi,
Thanks for taking the time to help btw, really appreciate it!

I added variable “Asymptote” with value “C:\Program Files (x86)\Asymptote” under User variables in Environment Variables. It didn’t do anything. Asymptote still doesn’t appear in texmacs.

Regards

Yibbou · July 24, 2020, 5:17am

Oh ok. (maybe C:\Program Files (x86)\Asymptote\asy.exe into the path variable)

Remove the Texmacs folder in C:\Users…\AppData\Roaming
uninstall and re-install texmacs.

best regards.

greycouncil · July 24, 2020, 10:03pm

Nope, didn’t work. Same problem.

Is anyone using Windows and has Asymptote working?

re4zuaFe · July 25, 2020, 7:41am

Did you try to suppress the configuration files? They are probably kept after uninstall, therefore you need to try to at least “temporarily delete” (that is to say, move the directory to a backup directory) it. It is described by the environment variable TEXMACS_PATH. However, I don’t use Windows and I don’t know where it is usually located in Windows.

greycouncil · July 25, 2020, 10:19am

Hmm, before any further troubleshooting, it would be helpful if someone can confirm that plugins work for them on windows with the latest version of texmacs. If so, which one, and what did you have to do to get it to work?

Yibbou · July 25, 2020, 3:41pm

Yes Asymptote work fine for me with this 1.99.13 version

Yibbou · July 25, 2020, 6:41pm

greycouncil · August 2, 2020, 9:26pm

What did you need to do to get it to work?
And, do you need that specific version of asymptote? I have the latest version of asymptote.

greycouncil · August 2, 2020, 11:03pm

I’m on my work PC at the moment, so using windows 10.

I uninstalled Texmacs. I deleted the texmacs directory in users>[username]>appdata>roaming.
I installed Asymptote 2.44 (64 bit version - previously I was installing 32 bit system).
I added C:\Program Files\Asymptote, C:\Program Files\Asymptote\asy.bat, C:\Program Files\Asymptote\asy.exe to user variables AND system variables under “Path”.
I then installed latest version of texmacs by right clicking and run as admin.

I still can’t see Asymptote in Texmacs menu. Would someone be able to create a video of how they get asymptote up and running from scratch? I honestly can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong :S

darcy · August 9, 2020, 2:46am

Another required dependency is Python. For Windows 10, just install Python 3.8 from the Windows store, and it will work fine.

darcy · August 9, 2020, 2:50am

Here is the entry point for the asy plugin:

github.com

texmacs/plugins/blob/master/tmpy/session/tm_asy.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
###############################################################################
##
## MODULE      : tm_gnuplot.py
## DESCRIPTION : Launcher for the Gnuplot plugin
## COPYRIGHT   : (C) 2019  Darcy Shen
##
## This software falls under the GNU general public license version 3 or later.
## It comes WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY WHATSOEVER. For details, see the file LICENSE
## in the root directory or <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html>.

import os
import sys
from os.path import exists
tmpy_home_path = os.environ.get("TEXMACS_HOME_PATH") + "/plugins/tmpy"
if (exists (tmpy_home_path)):
    sys.path.append(os.environ.get("TEXMACS_HOME_PATH") + "/plugins/")
else:
    sys.path.append(os.environ.get("TEXMACS_PATH") + "/plugins/")

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It requires python 2 or python 3. And I recommend that you should provide a python3 command. Python 2 is deprecated. Currently, the plugin should work fine with Python 2. And later, we may only test on Python 3.

greycouncil · August 10, 2020, 1:14am

Oooh, installing Python 3.8 did the trick. I can see the menu items now!

Thanks for that

Should definitely make that clearer on the downloads or plugins info page imho. I’m generally fairly computer savvy, and it wasn’t obvious to me at all. Or I just didn’t see wherever it was written?

greycouncil · August 13, 2020, 12:41pm

What must be done in windows 7?
I installed the latest version of python, making sure to tick the “add python to path” checkbox. But it hasn’t fixed the issue on my windows 7 machine.

Installing Python on my work windows 10 machine did the trick, but further step must be taken in windows 7?