Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:
> C Y <smustudent1@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > In the case of a full featured, robust graphical interface with 2D
> > display for Maxima, I agree that TeX is not the proper native display
> > format to use.
>
> I agree. IMHO the current 2D output in Maxima has two main problems:
>
> 1. It's ugly.
> 2. It's not editable. I.e. not suitable for selecting subexpressions
> and feeding them back to Maxima.
>
> Using TeX can solve problem 1 -- it's hard to beat the quality of TeX
> for mathematical typesetting.
>
> But I don't think that an approach involving TeX can ever be part of a
> solution to problem 2.
Well, TeXmacs seems to solve both problems (although part 2 still
needs some work).
Jay