Re: [babel] maxima support?

["Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>]

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Hi Eric,

I've gone through your ob-maxima.el, and tried to re-work it to the
point where it can be included into Org-mode -- mainly just switching to
a couple of Babel "best practices", and replacing some shell script
munging with elisp munging.

Please try out the attached version (packaged as a patch against the
current Org-mode head) and let me know if it works --- i.e., If I
haven't broken it too badly.  If it works I think we can fold it into
Org-mode immediately.

Cheers -- Eric


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From 8c8f85e2a98430cc147749b8fa67dbba53c0ccb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:20:05 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] adding support for Maxima code blocks -- thanks to Eric Fraga

---
 lisp/ob-maxima.el |   78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 lisp/org.el       |    1 +
 2 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 lisp/ob-maxima.el

diff --git a/lisp/ob-maxima.el b/lisp/ob-maxima.el
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c775f92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lisp/ob-maxima.el
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+;;; org-babel-maxima.el --- org-babel functions for maxima evaluation
+
+;; Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Eric S Fraga, Eric Schulte
+
+;; Author: Eric S Fraga, Eric Schulte
+;; Keywords: literate programming, reproducible research, maxima
+;; Homepage: http://orgmode.org
+;; Version: 0.01
+
+;;; License:
+
+;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
+;; any later version.
+;;
+;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+;; GNU General Public License for more details.
+;;
+;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
+;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+
+;;; Commentary:
+
+;; Org-Babel support for evaluating maxima entries.
+;;
+;; This differs from most standard languages in that
+;;
+;; 1) there is no such thing as a "session" in maxima
+;;
+;; 2) we are generally only going to return output from maxima
+;;
+;; 3) we are adding the "cmdline" header argument
+;;
+;; 4) there are no variables
+
+;;; Code:
+(require 'ob)
+
+(defvar org-babel-default-header-args:maxima '())
+
+(defun org-babel-maxima-expand (body params)
+  "Expand a block of Maxima code according to its header arguments."
+  body)
+
+(defun org-babel-execute:maxima (body params)
+  "Execute a block of Maxima entries with org-babel.  This function is
+called by `org-babel-execute-src-block'."
+  (message "executing Maxima source code block")
+  (let ((result-params (split-string (or (cdr (assoc :results params)) "")))
+	(cmdline (cdr (assoc :cmdline params)))
+        (in-file (org-babel-temp-file "maxima-"))
+	(cmd (format "maxima --very-quiet -r 'batchload(%S)$' %s"
+		     in-file cmdline)))
+    (with-temp-file in-file (insert body))
+    (message cmd)
+    ((lambda (raw) ;; " | grep -v batch | grep -v 'replaced' | sed '/^$/d' "
+       (delq nil
+	     (mapcar (lambda (line)
+		       (unless (or (string-match "batch" line)
+				   (string-match "replaced" line)
+				   (= 0 (length line)))
+			 line))
+		     (split-string raw))))
+     (org-babel-eval cmd ""))))
+
+(defun org-babel-prep-session:maxima (session params)
+  (error "Maxima does not support sessions"))
+
+(provide 'ob-maxima)
+
+;; arch-tag: d86c97ac-7eab-4349-8d8b-302dd09779a8
+
+;;; org-babel-maxima.el ends here
diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index 96ad8ff..ae0ef5e 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ requirements) is loaded."
 		 (const :tag "Javascript" js)
 		 (const :tag "Latex" latex)
 		 (const :tag "Ledger" ledger)
+		 (const :tag "Maxima" maxima)
 		 (const :tag "Matlab" matlab)
 		 (const :tag "Mscgen" mscgen)
 		 (const :tag "Ocaml" ocaml)
-- 
1.7.1


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Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Great, Thanks for sharing!
>>
>> Why don't we replace the shell-script munging with some elisp munging
>> and add this to the core?
>>
>> I can help with the translation to elisp (although I may be busy through
>> the weekend/week).
>>
>> Best -- Eric
>
> I'd be very happy to have the code made more portable, and integrated
> properly within org-babel.  I, unfortunately, don't have any of the
> elisp skills that would be necessary...  my upbringing in the early days
> of Unix are showing here: I solve everything with concatenation of
> targeted shell commands ;-)  Given that I use a sequence of regex based
> commands (grep and sed), I imagine it would be trivial for somebody with
> more elisp expertise to translate my sequence of commands into elisp
> code?