possibility of making wxMaxima the default GUI (instead of Xmaxima)
Subject: possibility of making wxMaxima the default GUI (instead of Xmaxima)
From: Joel Salomon
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:03:08 -0500
On 3/24/06, Andrej Vodopivec <andrej.vodopivec at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It would be nice to have other symbols, like alpha, beta, etc.
> > but TK Maxima doesn't do that either. I don't know what
> > checking Greek does, but maybe I should read a manual!
>
> wxmaxima uses %alpha, %Alpha... for greek characters. I don't remember
> why I decided for % prefix - I guess because maxima uses %pi, %gamma,
> %phi for constants.
I'd actually prefer that the contant %gamma not be identical to the
displayed greek gamma ??; the current set-up confused me when I was
trying to play with NMR equations that use ?? as a variable.
--Joel