Maybe some work to make Maxima display much better

Hello *,

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, C Y wrote:
> Well, we might be able to teach GtkMathView to understand maxima, too -
> it's a question which is the better solution.
I don't quite understand you. The current Maxima output format is not
formalized enough to be an alternative to LaTeX or MathML. If you want to
formalize it and to create a new math typesetting language in addition to
LaTeX and MathML, I am against such a thing. It's better to use MathML. I
can try to write MathML generation in Maxima patterned after LaTeX
generation. It would be useful anyway.

> That is a possibility, but there are several problems with it.  First,
> the Windows port of GTK is maintained by the same person who ported the
> GIMP, and AFAIK is not part of the main GTK effort.  This means if this
> individual should lose interest or have to quit working on it, we could
> be out in the cold.  wxWindows has a large user and maintainer base,
> and as a consequence is a more stable long term development target,
> IMHO.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that wxWindows is used in
several free software projects, and gtk - in several thousand projects.
This means it will never die. And I don't like too high towers - wxWindows
on top of gtk on top of Xlib.

You can also consider another option (though I don't like it for the same
reason - too high tower). Qt is supported by TrollTech on both Posix
platforms and Windows. It can now directly include gtk widgets, in
particular, I suppose, GtkMathView. It is GPLed (NOT LGPL!).

> I'm familiar with Scigraphica, and I agree it looks attractive, but I'm
> not sure if it has ever been compiled on Windows.
Most of it is in Python, and need no compilation. We only have to compile
gtk-extra.

Andrey