> Why doesn't the subscripted Greek letter rho[b] display properly?? Is
> this a bug, or am I doing it wrong?
I suspect this is a bug in wxMaxima, which seems to expect different
Lisp symbols than the Maxima parser actually produces in cases like
this. "rho[b]", "rho(b)", "rho" and "'rho" all use the lisp symbol
$RHO, but "'rho[b]" and "'rho(b)" use the nounified lisp symbol %RHO.
However, wxMaxima seems to expect the noun form to be $%RHO. Most other
Greek symbols have the same problem.
For now, you can work around this by typing the following commands (the
second one is only needed if you would like to render 'rho[b] to TeX):
:lisp (defprop %rho "<g>%rho</g>" wxxmlword)
:lisp (defprop %rho "\\rho" texword)
I have attached a suggested patch to wxmathml.lisp (part of wxMaxima) to
fix this problem for the other Greek letters as well. On the other
hand, mactex.lisp (part of Maxima) makes no attempt to render Greek
symbols in noun form. Do we want to add properties like the second line
above? I'm not sure.
Best,
Mark
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