User Manual



willisb@unk.edu writes:

> 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. 

Well, right now, TeXmacs does that.  (Symaxx does that to some extent,
also, but that's a different type of interface.)

> 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.

Thanks (and to Paulo, too), I'll get to work on it.
The MuPAD version that I did could optionally give output in ascii or
TeX, the Maxima version should have this, also.

Jay