How to help maxima get equation grouped nicely



On 08/21/2011 12:04 PM, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> You can use "box" in Maxima to 'protect' things from default
> simplifications.  But then you need to remove the box before calling tex,
> maybe something like this:
> 
> expr: box(a/b)*c$
> block([simp:false],tex(rembox(expr)))

I tried something like this, but I have a function which uses tex to
print out stuff to a file. With simp:false rather than calling this
function I get the noun form of the function call. weird that it does
this with my user defined function but not with say tex or rembox.