To the Maxima Mailing list:
I'm trying to make it so that I can typeset (convert into tex)
'diff(x,x). There seems to be a couple of problems with this conversion
process.
1. The apostrophe doesn't prevent the diff function from being
evaluated. This is strange, because the apostrophe on 'integrate(x,x)
prevents the integrate function from being evaluated, so why would it be
different for diff?
2. Since 'diff(x,x) outputs 1 instead of the unevaluated function,
I've tried turning off simplification ("simp:false;"), and this returns
something which is almost right, although it has the d with a "+1"
exponent. However, the tex output doesn't seem right at all:
"$${{d^{{\it mplus}\left(\right)}}\over{{\it
mtimes}\left(\right)}}\,x$$"
What should I do about this?
Thanks,
-Nathan