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 15:07:53 -0500
On 3/26/06, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at gmail.com> wrote:
> The % prefix is to distinguish between an ordinary variable named 'e'
> or 'i' and the special constants. The letter 'i', in particular, is
> very commonly used as an index variable, and it would be unacceptable
> to forbid that.
>
> Or do you mean on output only? On output, it would certainly be nice
> to have %e and %i (and especially %pi) display nicely.
IIRC, Mathematica uses a different font for what Maxima calls %e and
%i -- double struck, I believe.
--Joel