Way to make Maxima 1000 times better



Josh Don writes:

> It might have been ok for the 1970's, but surely someone must
> have a way to do better output formatting. 
>
> Is there a global switch so that all output comes out as Latex?
>
> Then does anyone know a good Latex2MathML converter?
>
> Then we go Latex --> MathML --> display in Mozilla !!
>
> Also, I haven't been able to find out --
> Is there a way to persist sessions/variables when using batch commands ?
>
> thanks for your answers.
>

There is at least two packages which produce MathML output
in Maxima directly without any intermediate Latex stage.
One is part of Maxima source share/contrib/maximaMathML
and another can be found at http://www.lurklurk.org/maxima.html

Making Maxima GUI of Mozilla is not hard task - XUL is
powerfull and portable.

One can even make 2-d input expression editor using
sample implementation
http://www.newmexico.mackichan.com/MathML/mathmled.htm

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