Dear Colleagues,
I am still a novice in Maxima and try to learn how to use it as effi-
ciently as possible. I work with Maxima 5.5 beta and its XMaxima
interface under Windows Millennium. In order to print (to a printer
I mean) a Maxima session in XMaxima presently I use Ctrl + / (or the
mouse appropriately) and, next I cut and copy the session to the
Windows clipboard, which I next copy to Notepad with Ctrl+V and
I am almost ready to print (by using Notepad) to a real printer or just
to Acrobat Distiller (PDFing).
My questions (and I would be most grateful for any reply and help) are:
(i) Is there any more efficient and simple-to-implement possibility
for printing Maxima sessions in XMaxima under Windows
(beyond LaTeX of course, which is another idea and requires
further effort under Windows)? For preparing PDF files with
Acrobat Distiller from XMaxima again?
(ii) In Notepad I am unable to copy plots and in any case, I cannot
format the output as much as I would like to do (e.g. use different
fonts, sizes of characters, etc.) For this reason, I have also tested
both Wordpad and Word, but in both cases the vertical alignment
of XMaxima is lost and this makes any such attempt with Wordpad/
Word useless. If I use the paragraph sign of Word, I can see two
strange symbols (control characters), i.e. the dot and arrows, which
seem to be the reason of the loss of vertical alignment in Wordpad/
Word. (This is a very strange behaviour of Maxima/XMaxima and
does not happen in Notepad, where everything is perfect!) Is there
any possibility of preservation of the vertical alignment (in the formulae
I mean) when I use Wordpad/Word for printing Maxima sessions in
XMaxima (after some editing/formatting or without them)?
I would be grateful for any help/suggestion on the direct printing question
from XMaxima. Which is the most efficient (and direct) way to print
(not just save) the XMaxima console under Windows? (The saving prob-
lem under Windows has been definitively resolved by Mike Clarkson
in his very recent XMaxima through a special menu command.)
Many thanks and kindest regards from Patras,
Nikos