Subject: Missing or deleted entries in documentation
From: Tim.Lauck at humboldt.edu
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:21:28 -0700 (PDT)
Hello,
A few years ago, I created a few automated procedures for writing some limit questions
for a calculus course. I remember going through difficulty getting simplification, evaluation and TeX output to work the way I wanted. Recently I wanted to do something similar. I notice that something I found in the manual before is now gone or maybe I just found this info online somewhere.
Turning on/off simplification
simp:false, simp:true.
This turned out to be very useful to generate the TeX output I was looking for.
Why isn't it in the manual or index or ? I took me quite a while to rediscover this.
In addition, I found that the new version of wxmaxima 5.19.2 will copy LaTeX but there is no command that I can find to output LaTeX to a file (which I need). But apparently the capability is there somewhere because I can right click on the expression and copy LaTeX. Here is a simple
example.
/* [wxMaxima: input start ] */
tex(x/2)$ x/2;
/* [wxMaxima: input end ] */
$${{x}\over{2}}$$
x/2
The output is in TeX but if I right click on x/2 and copy to LaTeX, I get $$\frac{x}{2}$$, the LaTeX expression! Is there a command I can use for this so I can copy it to a file? latex(x/2) does not work. The LaTeX expression (vs TeX) turns out to be more compatible with online posting of my quiz questions.
Best,
Tim