TeXCalc

TeXCalc

[Alan Stone]

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I downloaded Taco's TeXCalc script at http://tex.aanhet.net/utils/texcalc
and installed the required perlTk thingie.

Newbie question...

How do you run this "silly script" (*) ?

Using ActivePerl and sciTE.

Thanks,
Alan

(*) No, no it's not me who said it first... Taco wrote it himself ! ;O)

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Re: TeXCalc

[Hans Hagen]

Alan Stone wrote:
> I downloaded Taco's TeXCalc script at http://tex.aanhet.net/utils/texcalc
> and installed the required perlTk thingie.
> 
> Newbie question...
> 
> How do you run this "silly script" (*) ?
> 
> Using ActivePerl and sciTE.

maybe just

perl texcalc.pl

if i remember right it's a perltk script; it dates from the time (1999 
or so) that taco and i were exploring perltk .. in the same group or 
apps there is texwork (an tex oriented editor writen in perltk that i 
wrote plus some goodies - it still runs ok i just saw) and texshow that 
was later rewritten by taco to handle the xml variant if the syntax 
definitions

Hans


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Re: TeXCalc

[Michael Hallgren]

Le mercredi 11 juin 2008 à 20:28 +0200, Alan Stone a écrit :
> I downloaded Taco's TeXCalc script at
> http://tex.aanhet.net/utils/texcalc
> and installed the required perlTk thingie.
> 
> Newbie question...
> 
> How do you run this "silly script" (*) ?
> 
> Using ActivePerl and sciTE. 

mh@home:~/Bureau$ ./texcalc &
[1] 16901
mh@home:~/Bureau$ 

unless you prefer to add it to your PATH.

Cheers,

mh

>  
> Thanks,
> Alan
> 
> (*) No, no it's not me who said it first... Taco wrote it
> himself ! ;O)
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Re: TeXCalc

[Alan Stone]

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Thanks for your replies. Hans' suggestion worked.

As for...

>mh@home:~/Bureau$ ./texcalc &
>[1] 16901
>mh@home:~/Bureau$

I don't understand a thing about it. It's like klingon to me.  ;O)

Nevertheless, I'm curious. Where do you input that ?

FYI, I'm on Windows.

Alan

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Michael Hallgren <m.hallgren@free.fr>
wrote:

> Le mercredi 11 juin 2008 à 20:28 +0200, Alan Stone a écrit :
> > I downloaded Taco's TeXCalc script at
> > http://tex.aanhet.net/utils/texcalc
> > and installed the required perlTk thingie.
> >
> > Newbie question...
> >
> > How do you run this "silly script" (*) ?
> >
> > Using ActivePerl and sciTE.
>
> mh@home:~/Bureau$ ./texcalc &
> [1] 16901
> mh@home:~/Bureau$
>
> unless you prefer to add it to your PATH.
>
> Cheers,
>
> mh
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alan
> >
> > (*) No, no it's not me who said it first... Taco wrote it
> > himself ! ;O)
> >
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Re: TeXCalc

[Michael Hallgren]

Le jeudi 12 juin 2008 à 09:27 +0200, Alan Stone a écrit :
> Thanks for your replies. Hans' suggestion worked.
> 
> As for...
> 
> >mh@home:~/Bureau$ ./texcalc &
> >[1] 16901
> >mh@home:~/Bureau$
> 
> I don't understand a thing about it. It's like klingon to me.  ;O)
> 
> Nevertheless, I'm curious. Where do you input that ?
> 
> FYI, I'm on Windows.
 
Sorry, my excuses. That's the way you would do if you were using a Unix
alike system.

Cheers,

mh

> 
> Alan
> 
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Michael Hallgren <m.hallgren@free.fr>
> wrote:
>         Le mercredi 11 juin 2008 à 20:28 +0200, Alan Stone a écrit :
>         > I downloaded Taco's TeXCalc script at
>         > http://tex.aanhet.net/utils/texcalc
>         > and installed the required perlTk thingie.
>         >
>         > Newbie question...
>         >
>         > How do you run this "silly script" (*) ?
>         >
>         > Using ActivePerl and sciTE.
>         
>         
>         mh@home:~/Bureau$ ./texcalc &
>         [1] 16901
>         mh@home:~/Bureau$
>         
>         unless you prefer to add it to your PATH.
>         
>         Cheers,
>         
>         mh
>         
>         >
>         > Thanks,
>         > Alan
>         >
>         > (*) No, no it's not me who said it first... Taco wrote it
>         > himself ! ;O)
>         
>         
>         >
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Re: TeXCalc

[Alan Stone]

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> That's the way you would do if you were using a Unix
>alike system.

Mama mia ! That definitely doesn't motivate me to switch
to something Unix-ish. Forgive me, I'm a simple soul. ;O)

Good you've put it here for future reference nevertheless.

Best,
Alan

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Re: TeXCalc

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Alan Stone wrote:
>> That's the way you would do if you were using a Unix
>>alike system.
>
> Mama mia ! That definitely doesn't motivate me to switch
> to something Unix-ish. Forgive me, I'm a simple soul. ;O)

On Windows you can create a file
   texcalc.bat
with contents
   perl C:\path-to-texcalc\texcalc.pl
and put it somewhere into PATH.

Then, you will be able to call texcalc from console. If you want it in
Start Menu, I guess that you can simply put a link to that bat file
(or copy that bat file there).

Mojca
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Re: TeXCalc

[Alan Stone]

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Thanks Mojca.

For future reference, on how to proceed:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm
http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/environment.htm
or google (with quotes): "windows xp" +path

Alan

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Mojca Miklavec <
mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Alan Stone wrote:
> >> That's the way you would do if you were using a Unix
> >>alike system.
> >
> > Mama mia ! That definitely doesn't motivate me to switch
> > to something Unix-ish. Forgive me, I'm a simple soul. ;O)
>
> On Windows you can create a file
>   texcalc.bat
> with contents
>   perl C:\path-to-texcalc\texcalc.pl
> and put it somewhere into PATH.
>
> Then, you will be able to call texcalc from console. If you want it in
> Start Menu, I guess that you can simply put a link to that bat file
> (or copy that bat file there).
>
> Mojca
>
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Re: TeXCalc

[Frans Goddijn]

Thanks Richard for your advice! I've installed the pk material and now I get
Taco's calculator on screen, a fancy and pretty thing. On startup it flashes
some fast disappearing remarks about missing stacks or something but
otherwise it works beautifully,

Thanks!

Frans

----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Hensh <hensh@math.msu.edu>
To: Frans Goddijn <frans@iaf.nl>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 5:36 PM
Subject: RE: TeXCalc

Re: TeXCalc

[Frans Goddijn]

I suppose this is something for gurus...

I don't know what "execute in a shell" is but I did it on a command line and
got the response that ppm is not a filename or something like that.. I am
online, so that's not it.

Okay, I'll just wait untill it's all much simpler, so don't worry and forget
it.

> need to execute this command in a shell:
>
>     ppm install Tk

Re: TeXCalc

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hi Frans,

The program needs perlTk, a set of Perl extension modules that allows 
one to define windows with buttons, dropdown-lists etc. It's the same
extension set that texshow uses, so I assumed most people on the list
would have it installed. :)

Installation depends on your perl & operating system. 

I'm guessing you are using ActiveState perl, so you probably 
need to execute this command in a shell:

    ppm install Tk

(you have to be online for this to work)

Groetjes, Taco

> how should the program be used? It looks like a PERL script so I renamed it
> rexcalc.pl and on the command prompt I said "perl texcalc.pl" but then perl
> says it misses some "tk" stuff somewheres.

Re: TeXCalc

[Frans Goddijn]

Hi Taco,

how should the program be used? It looks like a PERL script so I renamed it
rexcalc.pl and on the command prompt I said "perl texcalc.pl" but then perl
says it misses some "tk" stuff somewheres.

Groet!

Frans

> For those who want to play with a little new program,
> here is TeXCalc, version 0.1.

TeXCalc

[Taco Hoekwater]

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Hi all,

For those who want to play with a little new program,
here is TeXCalc, version 0.1.

TeXCalc is a program that can convert and do calculus with TeX units. 

You know the  "how much is (21cm-28pc)/2" problems you have when you
design a new layout? TeXCalc can (or should) solve these problems!

All of TeX's normal units are supported, conversion is quite accurate
(most calculations use scaled points), and input is fairly fast.
The expression can be entered from the keyboard as "21c28p-2/", and
you need only one keystroke to get the result in a different unit
(like alt-t for points)

Let me know what you think.

Greetings, Taco

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