changing maxima display to plaintext notation

Harald

I have tried the tex function and wonder if there isn't something to  
show it in latex 2.09 format.  I'm experiencing a strange dialectic  
shock here reading tex.  For example,

, instead of \times or \cdot to show multiplication

\over instead of \frac{numerator}{denominator} to show fractions.

3*y instead of 3y

I I am reading the quickstart manual pdf file to learn more about  
this.  It looks like it is showing it in that cute spacial style.  It  
also looks like it was done in LaTeX.  Would someone happen to have a  
code file I could look at?

Regards
Justin Harford

On Jan 13, 2008, at 3:40 PM, Harald Geyer wrote:

> Hello Justin,
>
>> 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.
>
> That's a good start. Try setting
> display2d:false;
>
> This will cause maxima to output everything line by line. The
> output format is pretty similiar to the input syntax.
>
> There is also the function tex() which takes an expression as
> argument and returns what could be its TeX representation. Perhaps
> this is useful too?
>
> If you have any feedback on how to make maxima (or some resources
> like the wiki or the this mailing list - quoting style comes to
> mind) more accessible, I would be interested to know.
>
> Harald
>