emaxima: case sensitivity and more



lambda and omicron are the only two greek letters not in that list.

On 12/1/05, Raymond Toy  wrote:
> >>>>> "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
>
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