I'm undecided on whether the User Manual should have ASCII-art math or
TeX'ed math. I think ASCII-art math it is bad for the reasons in my
original posting, but, as I said, it is the honest approach.
I hope Maxima will someday have a spiffy user interface that
provides TeX or TeX-like terminal output. When that day arrives
do we want an ASCII-art User Manual? In the meantime, I like
CY's idea of being able to optionally specify TeX or ASCII-art
Maxima output.
And I *really* like Jay Belanger's offer to get Dan Dill's Mathematica
mode for emacs working for Maxima.
Barton