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The Aldor Programming Language
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algebra documentation #135

Closed Alessandro-Barbieri closed 1 year ago

Alessandro-Barbieri commented 4 years ago

The original algebra documentation from https://www-sop.inria.fr/cafe/Manuel.Bronstein/algebra/ isn't available anymore, Manuel Bronstein died in 2005 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220203836_In_memory_of_Manuel_Bronstein the only way to have it seems to build it from source

nsajko commented 4 years ago

Pardon me, but how does one build the algebra documentation? I see there are some Tex files in the tree, but there is no Makefile or instructions there, even though it seems a relevant Makefile is referenced in the README file in that directory.

hemmecke commented 4 years ago

The only thing I know is that the data in the .as files were done for usage with ALDOC. You find something inside aldor/lib/aldor/doc/tex. But how exactly it is build I don't know or cannot easily recall.

What exactly do you want to know about this library?

nsajko commented 4 years ago

What exactly do you want to know about this library?

I had an idea to solve a simple mathematical problem in a couple different languages: https://github.com/nsajko/discrete-math-lab1

Aldor was one of the intended targets, and AFAIK algebra is the "math" library for Aldor, so I am mainly interested just in its possible ability to solve linear equations. But, hypothetically, I may want to use Aldor more later, so I would need to know what I can use it and its algebra library for.

pbroadbery commented 4 years ago

I removed the original makefiles that created the documentation. Obviously I had intended to restore the functionality later... I'll do that now & upload the pdf files to github

The commit in question was a2d745b8, I'm forward porting it, although it has to be said that my latex is a bit rusty.

Peter

On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 at 15:39, Neven Sajko notifications@github.com wrote:

What exactly do you want to know about this library?

I had an idea to solve a simple mathematical problem in a couple different languages: https://github.com/nsajko/discrete-math-lab1

Aldor was one of the intended targets, and AFAIK algebra is the "math" library for Aldor, so I am mainly interested just in its possible ability to solve linear equations. But, hypothetically, I may want to use Aldor more later, so I would need to know what I can use it and its algebra library for.

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hemmecke commented 4 years ago

The commit in question was a2d745b8, I'm forward porting it, although it has to be said that my latex is a bit rusty.

I guess I can help with the latex part. However, time is an issue.

Ralf

pbroadbery commented 4 years ago

OK - it wasn't as painful as expected. PDF files attached here. I'll create a PR for the build changes in a day or two.

LdBeth commented 3 years ago

It might be a good idea to upload EPS version for FIG format graphics so one does not need extra fig2eps installed to compile the LaTeX documentation.

pbroadbery commented 3 years ago

I've created a branch containing a working documentation build - #144 (pab/gmp-doc-fixes). You will need to specify '--enable-documentation' at configure time, and have the necessary prerequisites installed. If you have time to test please do. I will do some further tests on the gmp side of the patch & merge into master unless any problems are found.

pbroadbery commented 1 year ago

Closed as doc now builds