Re: Simple TeX based graphical front end display for maxima.
Subject: Re: Simple TeX based graphical front end display for maxima.
From: Jesper Harder
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 05:44:42 +0200
"Rod Stephenson" <rodney@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> This is not industrial strength - in particular there is no line
> breaking in equations:
Look for 'breqn.sty', a LaTeX package which can break equations. It
can't break everything (e.g. fractions), but it works well enough to
be useful for this purpose.
> It does give nice output for simple equations. (Solutions to ODE's
> with undefined constants %C confuse it naturally, this shouldn't be
> too hard to patch)
Imaxima¹ includes a modified version of mactex.lisp which deals with
some of that stuff.
> Any other feedback, suggestions for improvement would be welcome.
There's a native Tcl/Tk DVI renderer² which can insert DVI images
directly in a Tk canvas (I think) -- it would be really nifty if it
could be used to insert the images in xmaxima itself.
¹ http://purl.org/harder/imaxima.html
² http://tkdvi.sourceforge.net/
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Cheers,
Jesper Harder