Hi Matthew,
The web interface looks good. Keep up the good work.
> I'm not entirely satisfied with the behavior of the tex function
> (it outputs Plain TeX, and why is it using \varkappa?),
Well, it's not 100% plain TeX and it hasn't been for some time.
\mbox is used in various places. Recently I made some stuff
output the verbatim environment. It turns out there is no plain
TeX verbatim, and apparently creating one is difficult.
I have made various changes to src/mactex.lisp post-5.9.3.
Check the revision history. Please tell us what you would
like to see in TeX output and there's a good chance it will
actually be done.
See also tests/rtest_tex.mac (generates a test document).
It is in cvs.
> and one of the things I'd like to do is write an
> up-to-date "latex" function that does a nicer job of formatting.
Please tell us what you want here. Maybe we just need
to change some simple things.
We have floated some ideas for a TeX flavor system
(TeX vs LaTeX vs whatever-TeX).
Maybe with your help we can get the ball rolling.
Thanks for your interest in Maxima,
Robert Dodier