display multiplication symbol in output



Hello.

Is there a setting I can change to cause wxMaxima to display a multiplication symbol between two variables which are being multiplied?

For example, a*b currently displays as "a b" (with a space instead of a multiply symbol) and I find that confusing to read.

Thank you.


--- On Sat, 5/28/11, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Maxima] write_data with separator_flag = space ?
To: "Edwin Woollett" <woollett at charter.net>
Cc: "maxima mailing list" <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
Date: Saturday, May 28, 2011, 1:52 PM

Ted, the problem is that there is a variable in the stringproc package
(which you must have loaded, I guess) named "space".
Try write_data(<whatever>, 'space) (i.e. quote the variable).

HTH, Robert Dodier

On 5/27/11, Edwin Woollett <woollett at charter.net> wrote:
> According to the write_data sect. of the
> help manual:
>
>? ? ? "The recognized values of separator_flag
>? ? ???are comma, pipe, semicolon, space, and tab.
>? ? ???If separator_flag is not specified, the file
>? ? ???is assumed space-delimited."
>
> I can get comma to work, but not space.
> -------------------------------------------------
> Maxima 5.24.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.8 (a.k.a. GCL)
> Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
> Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
> The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ???2011-05-27
>
>
> (%i1) dataL : [[0,2],[1,3],[2,4]]$
>
> (%i2) write_data (dataL,"tmp4.out")$
> (%i3) printfile ("tmp4.out")$
> 0 2
> 1 3
> 2 4
>
> (%i4) write_data (dataL,"tmp4.out",comma)$
> (%i5) printfile ("tmp4.out")$
> 0,2
> 1,3
> 2,4
>
> (%i6) write_data(dataL,"tmp4.out",space)$
> numericalio: separator flag " " not recognized; assume ``space''.
>
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