changing maxima display to plaintext notation

Hello

Is there a way to change the way that maxima displays output to a  
plaintext format.  LaTeX would be really nice, but I can work with  
other forms of plaintext if necessary.

I am a new member to the list, and a new user to maxima.  I am blind  
and depend on the built in screenreading program called voiceover in  
the mac os x operating system.  I installed maxima through macports.   
It is the command line version.

Everything seems to work really well until I get an output that has  
some sort of spacial effect to it.  The best example I can provide is  
superscripts.  type

factor(4);

The output is something like a 2, with another 2 above it.  With a  
screenreader that can only handle math one line at a time, and with  
the fact that the superscript is on a different line to the number,  
this may only make since because there is only one number/superscript  
to deal with.  I forsee that this will become more complicated with  
answers that show more of this.

So again, if I could change this so that it would for example show

2^2

instead of

   2
2

It would really make this more usable.

Regards
Justin Harford

Where I come from, we believe all sorts of things that aren't true; we  
call it history.
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