--- Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu> wrote:
>
> maxima.el has been improved a bit, largely due to Albert Reiner.
> The indentation is much improved, it will find the info files without
> having to specify them, there is a Maxima minor mode, and there is a
> mode for working with noweb-mode.
> The changes are mentioned in the comments at the beginning of the
> file, but I haven't rewritten the Introduction yet.
Cool! For the clueless (me), what would noweb-mode do?
> Someone (I forget who, but thanks! It was a good idea!) suggested
> using the listings.sty package to typeset Maxima code in emaxima.
> I complete rewrote emaxima.sty to do this, but I haven't committed
> it. The rewritten version is written more in LaTeX than in TeX now,
> and now uses the LaTeX-y
> \begin{maxima}
> ...
> \end{maxima}
> rather than
> \beginmaxima
> ...
> \endmaxima.
Ah, excellent.
> Any changes like that in an emaxima file can be made easily enough,
> or I could even write an elisp update function.
As far as the user manual goes (the only large document written using
Emaxima I know of so far) it will be a one time thing so I don't think
an elisp update is needed.
> Other than that, there aren't many changes, except that I didn't put
> in Initialization cells (easy enough to put in, but I couldn't think
> of a use for them)
Didn't we use them in one or two places in the Maximabook? I'll have
to check.
>, and adjustments of cells aren't done with commands
> like \maximaprecellspace; instead there are all-purpose commands in
> the cell definitions which can be redefined to adjust the cells.
OK, I'll probably have to play with that but I'll figure it out.
> Since the new version is incompatible with the old one, I'm checking
> to see if there are any objections before I commit it.
I'd say go for it, and thanks much for the improvements!
CY
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