Re: [babel] maxima support?

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

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

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

> Litvinov Sergey <slitvinov@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I have not found (i)maxima on this page.
>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages.html
>> (Babel: Languages)
>>
>> Has someone implemented it?
>
> I have implemented a very basic interface (attached).  Example:
>
> #+begin-src org
> * maxima test
> *** simple test
>     #+begin_src maxima
> programmode: false;
> eq: x**2-1 = 0;
> solution: solve(eq, x);
> print(solution);
>     #+end_src
>
>     #+results:
>     : [x = - 1, x = 1] 
> #+end_src
>
> However, please note that this is rather linux (maybe Unix) specific in
> that it post-processes the output of maxima using a sequence of shell
> commands to get rid of unnecessary (to my mind) output.  Maxima is a bit
> verbose...