On 5/31/08, Adrien Welter <adrien.welter at welter-engineering.biz> wrote:
> I would like to start an initiative to program a frontend for maxima which
> looks and can be used exactly in the way as mathcad or smath.
There are various user interfaces for Maxima, see:
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/relatedprojects.html
Probably the best way to proceed is to see which one is closest
to what you want, and use that as the basis for development.
I like TeXmacs, although it is unreliable (random crashes) in my experience.
HTH
Robert Dodier