Maybe some work to make Maxima display much better

--- "Andrey G. Grozin" <A.G.Grozin@inp.nsk.su> wrote:
> 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. 

I agree.  I just ment where to add the ability to go from maxima
internals
to formatted graphical input/output.  I 

> 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 would be great.

> 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.

As far as open source goes, you are correct.  But keep in mind - most 
Linux products are not written as cross platform applicaitons.  Thus,
most projects have no need for wxWindow's benefits.  GTK itself
will never die, but the Windows port of it might.

As for too high towers, I'm not sure it's too high in this case - just
high
enough.  Aiming a little higher gets us (IMHO, of course) a lot ofl
benefits.  I don't think the performance hit would be major - wxWindows

seems to have done a decent job in that department.  I've installed an 
email client written with wxWindows, and that seemed to do OK on
both platforms.

> 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!).

That is indeed a possibility - I don't know enough about it's including
gtk 
widgets to comment.  That still leaves out the Macintosh, however.
 
> Most of it is in Python, and need no compilation. We only have to
> compile gtk-extra.

That's the crux - I've never tried, and I've never heard of anyone
trying.
Are you able to take a shot at it?  

CY

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