I think the interesting problem is effective line-breaking, or
some solution (like re-naming of subexpressions) that allows
for the very-long displays that are easily produced by
maxima.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Dodier" <robert.dodier at gmail.com>
To: "Matthew Sarnoff" <msarnoff at andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: "William Stein" <wstein at gmail.com>; "David Joyner" <wdjoyner at gmail.com>;
<maxima at math.utexas.edu>; <sage-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Maxima] Re: Maxima web interface
> 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
>
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