It seems to me that the material which is
the input/output transcript should be displayed in one
of the more advanced display systems. Using the ascii-based
display means that the material takes too much room and
is hard to read.
When I last tried to make such documentation I was
faced with the same situation, and I think I also used
ascii text.
The fact that you are still doing this suggests several
things.
1. The advanced front end (Texmacs looks best)
are not good enough to support
what you want. (No cut and paste of typeset expressions?)
2. The displays don't reflect accurate or fully
functional formatting,
for example, does Texmacs handle multiple line displays?
I am trying to get Texmacs installed (a student is
working on it... it seems ok on Solaris; I use maxima on
windows though!)
Also texmacs seems not at all like emacs to me, which
is a disappointment.. I wanted all of emacs + display sections
in a notebook.
RJF
Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
>>http://mathshield.sourceforge.net/maximadoc.pdf
>>
>
> Looks great, althought I didn't read it that carefully.
> One typographic note, I think you should make the images
> little bit smaller.
>
> Mr Fateman wrote:
>
>>There may be some more, but I can imagine a situation
>>in which we have
>>
> ...
>
>>foo.doc the documentation e.g. "foo" takes one argument...
>>
>
> I think we should avoid .doc. It's commonly used to encode
> certain type of not-human-readable binary files.
>
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