Re: Simple TeX based graphical front end display for maxima.



"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