CS, strings and broken plotting



>>>>> "Vadim" == Vadim V Zhytnikov <vvzhy@mail.ru> writes:

    Vadim> Hello everyone!

    Vadim> At present default gnuplot plotting is broken.
    Vadim> Even simplest plot2d(sin(x),[x,0,3]); complains
    Vadim> about "WITH".  This is certainly due to recent CS
    Vadim> changes and Maxima's specific internal string
    Vadim> representation as symbols.

Can you provide more information?  I don't have this problem.

    Vadim> Maybe it is good idea to change Maxima's string
    Vadim> representation?   I know that this modification was
    Vadim> not planned for 5.9.2 but suddenly it is turned out to
    Vadim> be tightly entangled with CS.  So maybe now is a
    Vadim> right time to replace Maxima's &WITH by "with"?

I think using real strings would be a good idea.  But fairly difficult
to implement.  But perhaps now would be a good time since we're
breaking lots of stuff anyway. :-)

Ray