possibility of making wxMaxima the default GUI (instead of Xmaxima)
Subject: possibility of making wxMaxima the default GUI (instead of Xmaxima)
From: Andrej Vodopivec
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:05:16 -0800
On 3/25/06, van Nek <van.Nek at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> I vote against !!!
>
> Hello Robert,
> from my actual point of knowledge about and experience with wxmaxima I must vote
> against having wxmaxima as the default gui.
>
> reasoning:
> +++ The great advantage of wxmaxima is, that it helps users to get the right input.
>
> - - - The headache I have at the moment is concerning the output format of wxmaxima.
> I use xmaxima in my classes and my students copy the input and output lines from
> xmaxima to ms word. By using Lucida as font for instance the output with exponents
> and fractions is nicely displayed. In exame tests this must happen in a very short time
> and doing it just by copy and paste fits our needs. The students have to write a lot of
> comments in between the maxima lines. In ms word or open office this is easy to do.
>
> With wxmaxima copy and paste is not possible (?). The output is available in html
> format and then saved in png graphics. I don't believe, that all my students ( I must say
> that for a lot of students their work with maxima is their first contact with a computer )
> are able to work with this format. Maybe this is possible in a wysiwyg html editor like
> frontpage. But in any case one has to learn some additional methods to work with the
> wxmaxima output.
> I don't want to think about latex output in this context. Perhaps there are other
> possibilities that I don't know. I am open to learn ...
Since you mention ms word I assume you use MS Windows in class. You
can copy the output from wxMaxima using 'Edit->Copy as image' and
paste it into Word. You will get an image in your document which looks
like the png file in HTML export.
Andrej