exporting/displaying in programming code style



On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, W Eryk Wolski wrote:

> Maxima is great, so I started to use it but I am still a newbe
> (searched for quite a while the manual) and can't figure out how
> to export/display an maxima result (some equation)
> in a programming language style?
>
> So instead of getting something like this:
>                 4            3         2     2       3                4    2
> L = - ((2 m2  - m1 m2  - 2 m1  m2  - m1  m2 + 2 m1 ) L3
>
> I would prefer to get a display such as:
>
> L = - ((2 * m2^4  - m1^3 * m2^2  - 2* m1^2 * m2^2  - m1^3  * m2 + 2 *
> m1^4 ) * L3^2

For exporting, stringout() is handy.

HTH,

Dan