A start on the User Manual; appearance; other opinions

I think that appearance is important.  The
mathematica books and on-line material look
good to me.  I suspect TeX / PDF /Display
PostScript is what was used.

TeXmacs or LyX
or even emacs --- any program not commercially supported
which requires SEPARATE installation from
Maxima to be used -- should be used with
great caution.  Anything that does not
run well on Windows -- like it or not, the most
common operating system --  can't be considered
seriously.

I'm OK with Acrobat Reader, though I agree
it is possible to get into trouble if you
  do not play the right games with fonts.


The appearance of html is often unpredictable
and often poor unless you make bitmaps. It is
also very bulky for what you actually encode.


There are some fancy display programs like Livemath
and tech explorer (a plug-in from IBM), but they

require separate downloads.