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using Macaulay 2 with TeXmacs

Texmacs is a free visual text editor for mathematics that can be used to produce TeX output. It also supports interactive use with various symbolic algebra programs, such as Macaulay 2. Texmacs is available from http://www.texmacs.org/.

Be sure to get TeXmacs version 1.0.6.12 or later. There is bug in 1.0.6.10, the effect of which is that no output from Macaulay 2 will be displayed.

Using TeXmacs as an interface to Macaulay 2 is described in the TeXmacs online manual: http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/manual/webman-interface.en.html. The basic procedure is to pull down the Insert menu, select Session from it, and then to select Macaulay 2 from the resulting submenu. Alternatively, you can click on the icon that looks like a computer terminal and select Macaulay 2 from the resulting submenu.

The interface is implemented by a special top level mode in Macaulay 2 that causes the output to be converted to mathML, see TeXmacs. MathML conversion methods have not been implemented yet for all data types.