Thanks for all your replies.
Is this a feature or a bug? I couldn’t test as trying to run texmacs &
from a terminal returned -bash: texmacs: command not found
.
Having run diff
on the files, the latest version of texmacs-maxima.lisp
seems to have incorporated the suggestions brought up in the discussions you referred to above.
Of course, I could use
if I wanted to have embedded plots. However I’m not a great fan of them.
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embedded plots extremely bloat larger *.tm
-documents
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they create a lot of junk files in $TEXMACS_HOME_PATH/system/tmp
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a gnuplot wxt-window allows for the use of cursors and zooming, plus save as
options.
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compared to the output produced by draw[2|3]d
from a gnuplot wxt-terminal when running Maxima from a terminal, the design and formatting of the plots created the series of tm_(...)
commands are decidedly ugly, at least for my liking:
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they look more like badly formatted Excel plots, with font sizes being much too large and bold
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produce plot renderings of inferior quality as the line drawings are no longer delicate enough – that may be fine for beamer presentations but not for print publications.
btw, this issue doesn’t seem to be restricted to the Maxima plugin. I noticed the same “decline” in quality when rendering plots from within the Octave plugin and wonder what is the rationale behind that.
Interestingly enough, running plot[2|3]d
in a Maxima session from within TeXmacs still opens a gnuplot wxt-terminal.
Tilda