Documentation Questions



>>>>> "Tuukka" == Tuukka Toivonen <tuukkat@ees2.oulu.fi> writes:

    >> Question 2: What do we use?

    Tuukka> I myself would like to have a LaTeX
    Tuukka> documentation. Although the Maxima commands itself are
    Tuukka> text-based, it would probably help people to see the
    Tuukka> corresponding things written in standard math notations.

I would also like to see nice equations in the document.  However....

    Tuukka> The GNU standards use info, but I don't like it =)

Maxima's describe command is pretty tightly coupled to info since it
has a builtin info file parser/reader.  I use this feature a lot since
I can never remember all of the commands, options, and syntax.

Could probably replace this with something like spawning off a process
to bring up a Web browser to the appropriate place.  This is rather
nice if the hyperlinks are set up.  Maybe be able to steal what Clisp(?)
has done with in this area.

Ray