| 1 | This directory contains initial work on: |
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| 2 | |
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| 3 | mpview |
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| 4 | |
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| 5 | a program that can display file.mp, an mp-encoded data file, |
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| 6 | in prefix, infix, or latex form. See testall for the usage. |
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| 7 | The work is imcomplete by far: |
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| 8 | |
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| 9 | (1) displaying annotations has to be addressed |
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| 10 | (2) Many latex constructs to be added |
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| 11 | (3) must be tested and ported on different platforms |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | The purpose is for mpview to be a viewer for mp data files just like |
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| 14 | a .gif viewer. It can then be used together with MIME mail and |
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| 15 | on the Web. We use application/mp as the MIME document type for mp. |
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| 16 | A simple previewer program for .mp files is found in the |
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| 17 | displaymp script. |
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| 18 | |
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| 19 | To enable MIME mail viewing of MP data modify the following line and |
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| 20 | add to your ~/.mailcap file something like the following |
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| 21 | |
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| 22 | application/mp; LOCAL_BIN_PATH/displaymp %s |
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| 23 | |
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| 24 | where LOCAL_BIN_PATH is the full pathname to where displaymp will |
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| 25 | be installed. For example, |
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| 26 | |
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| 27 | application/mp; /users/research/wang/pwang/cmd/displaymp %s |
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| 28 | |
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| 29 | displaymp is a script which will invoke the mpview program, so you |
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| 30 | will need to modify displaymp to contain the correct path to where |
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| 31 | mpview is to be installed. |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | This also enables any Web viewer which uses the .mailcap file to |
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| 34 | treat this type of MIME data. |
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| 35 | |
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| 36 | To enable a Web browser such as netscape and xmosaic to display |
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| 37 | a file with .mp extension you need to also add the following line |
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| 38 | to your ~/.mime.types file |
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| 39 | |
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| 40 | application/mp mp |
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| 41 | |
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| 43 | Another part of this project is the creation of MP data from |
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| 44 | MAXIMA. This facility is in the file "maxima/mpsend.lsp". See that |
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| 45 | file for details of compilation and use. |
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| 46 | |
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| 47 | |
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| 48 | =============== |
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| 49 | |
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| 50 | Files: |
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| 51 | |
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| 52 | mpview.c -- the main program |
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| 53 | infix.c -- for converting to infix form |
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| 54 | latex.c -- for for converting to latex form |
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| 55 | prefix.c -- for converting to prefix form |
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| 56 | leaf.c -- handling leaf nodes, used by both infix.c and latex.c |
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| 57 | node.c -- this contains knowledge of the .mp binary file structure |
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| 58 | and supplies routines to read a nodes from an mp-tree |
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| 59 | contained in a .mp file. |
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