One can use wxMaxima and open-source software to generate PDF documents with
limited knowledge of LaTeX. Most of the heavy lifting is done by wxMaxima.
I've developed some notes and posted them at this site:
http://facultyweb.berry.edu/wmixon/maxima/Typesetting/Intro.html
Be aware that the HTML page itself is mostly to provide links. The details
on using wxMaxima and TexMaker (the LaTeX software that I prefer) are in the
PDF file.
I welcome suggestions for improving this site.
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> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 15:17:54 -0400
> From: Javed Alam <jalam1001 at gmail.com>
> To: Paul Midgley <paul at midgley.org>, maxima <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] Printing out results
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> Hi
>
[ . . . ]
> The best is to get latex output through texout command and incorporate
> that
> into a latex document and then do
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> latex > dvi > ps or PDF
>
> However, that requires proficiency in Latex. Most of the math graduates
> have
> that knowledge but students in Engineering don't. Also, pure math
> documents
> involve text and equations and latex works just fine for them. The
> incorporation of images in a latex document requires additional knowledge.
> Even I find adding images to a latex document cumbersome.
>
> Alam
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