If you want a system that produces displays exactly as you specify, you
could use a
typesetting system like TeX.
Turning off the simplifier breaks almost everything, and is not a good
idea (except possibly
in very local circumstances).
Jaime Villate wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 16:25 +0400, Mikhail Khokhlov wrote:
>
>> I've noticed that Maxima often changes the order of operands in sums
>> that I enter. Is it
>> possible to suppress this behavior, so that when I enter "a + b", I
>> get "a + b" and not "b + a"?
>> And one more possibly related question: is there any way to disable
>> automatic simplifications,
>> so that "a/a" would remain "a/a" until I explicitly ask it to simplify
>> to "1"?
>>
> type: describe(simp) to see the manual section for that.
> Regards,
> Jaime
>
>
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