Tuukka Toivonen <tuukkat@ees2.oulu.fi> writes:
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, C Y wrote:
>
> > 1) Tutorial/Users Manual
>
> Yes, I agree completely with this what you said. A good starting point
> is the intro.html "Maxima Primer", that comes at least with Maxima 5.6.
Do you mean intromax.html in the doc directory?
Well, there is also, in the info directory, the beginnings of what I
think is a better primer, maxima-primer.tex by Nels Tomlinson.
How's it going, Nels?
> >Question 2: What do we use?
>
> I myself would like to have a LaTeX documentation. Although the
> Maxima commands itself are text-based, it would probably help
> people to see the corresponding things written in standard math
> notations.
>
> The GNU standards use info, but I don't like it =)
There is texinfo, which can output dvi, html, and info. One of those
should please most people. Plus the reference manual is already
written in it.
Jay