emaxima: case sensitivity and more



>>>>> "Klaus" == Schnitzlein   writes:

    Klaus> using emaxima I encountered that lower case letters are generally
    Klaus> transformed into capital letters in the TeX output.
    Klaus> Is there a way to prevent this?

I'm not familiar with emaxima, so I can't help there.

    Klaus> Moreover, I recognized that sometimes variables consisting of a letter
    Klaus> and a number, i.e. c1, are represented as C_1 in TeX-output, but this
    Klaus> is not true for any number.
    Klaus> How can I understand that or how can I fix this problem?

What version of maxima are you running.  The current CVS version does
this:

tex(abc123) -> $$abc_{123}$$

    Klaus> In addition, greek letters are as far as I know are converted to their
    Klaus> representative TeX-analogue, i.e. Phi --> \Phi. Is this true for
    Klaus> every greek character?

A quick look through src/mactex.lisp says these lowercase variables
are converted to lowercase TeX Greek characters:

    alpha beta gamma delta epsilon zeta eta theta iota kappa mu nu xi
    pi rho sigma tau upsilon phi chi psi omega

I can't remember if this is all of the Greek letters or not.  The
following uppercase variables are converted to uppercase Greek
characters:

    Gamma Delta Theta Lambda Xi Pi Sigma Upsilon Phi Psi Omega

I think all the other uppercase letters are the same as the uppercase
Roman letters, so nothing special is done for them.

Ray