The format package in the contributed section
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/maxima/maxima/share/contrib/
Might also help with this, in a more general way.
Chris
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> > I have been unable to find something like maple's or mupad 'scollect ().
>
> Try facsum(expr, var1, var2, ...)
>
> e.g.
>
> test: expand((a+b+c)^3,a);
>
> facsum(test,a) => (c+b)^3+3*a*(c+b)^2+3*a^2*(c+b)+a^3
>
> Note that the *order* of the terms is not necessarily increasing in
> powers of a, e.g.:
>
> facsum((a+a*b+b)^2,a) => a^2*(b+1)^2+b^2+2*a*b*(b+1)
>
> Use coeff to extract specific terms, e.g. coeff(...,a,1).
>
> -s
>
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