Actually this looks like a bug. The behavior should be gamma for
lowercase and Gamma for upper. This works for alpha and Alpha, beta
and Beta. Gamma is the name of a built-in function, so perhaps there's
an issue here.
David
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 09:41 -0700, Robert Dodier wrote:
> OK by me to change the way tex handles gamma,
> but let's do it by simply defining the appropriate properties
> instead of by calling texput.
>
> best
>
> Robert Dodier
>
>
> > RCS file: /cvsroot/maxima/maxima/src/mactex.lisp,v
> > retrieving revision 1.74
> > diff -r1.74 mactex.lisp
> > 469c469
> > < (defprop %gamma "\\Gamma" texword) ; THIS IS UNFORTUNATE ...
> > ---
> >> (defprop %gamma "\\gamma" texword) ; THIS IS UNFORTUNATE ...
> > 1173a1174,1192
> >>
> >> (eval-when (:load-toplevel :execute)
> >> (simplify
> >> (mfunction-call $texput
> >> (trd-msymeval %gamma '%gamma)
> >> (m-tlambda ($arglist)
> >> (declare (special $arglist))
> >> ((lambda ($vx)
> >> (declare (special $vx))
> >> (mset '((mlist (3 "tex-gamma.mac" src))
> >> $vx)
> >> (simplify ($args $arglist)))
> >> (simplify
> >> (mfunction-call $concat
> >> '"\\Gamma\\left("
> >> (simplify
> >> (mfunction-call $tex1
> >> $vx))
> >> '"\\right)")))
> >> '$vx))))
> >> )
> >
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