Re: Tabs



James Frye wrote:
> On 27 Mar 2003, James Amundson wrote:
> 
> 
>>I hadn't thought about this before, but I think completely eliminating
>>the tabs in maxima output is a good idea.  Can anyone think of a good
>>reason for why we should keep tabs?
> 
> 
> May I second that?  All it does is give me badly garbled output if I don't
> guess what maxima's idea of tab settings is.
> 
> A couple of related suggestions, too.  It would be nice if there were
> settings to a) tell maxima to use the full width of the screen, not simply
> assume that it's 80 characters or so; and b) left-align the output instead
> of centering it.

Change linel:80 to something else.  For left-alignment, there
is a display program... e.g.
(cn) ldisp( .... stuff) $

or somesuch name.
RJF


> 
> James 
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