Exporting examples for use in other applications

org-mode for Emacs can embed maxima code in documents.

On Nov 13, 2012, at 2:44 PM, Jaime Villate <villate at fe.up.pt> wrote:

> On 11/13/2012 02:41 AM, Leo Butler wrote:
>> Jaime, This is more a daydream than anything: I have been wanting for
>> some time now to have a cleaner way of doing mixing Maxima and TeX. In
>> your case, your Maxima code drives the LaTeX; in my case, I embed all my
>> Maxima code in LaTeX files. In both ways, there is no 2-way
>> communication between the CAS and typesetter and there is generally a
>> kludgy step where language X code is prepared by language Y. I feel that
>> it would be nice to have TeX, or a substitute, inside a Lisp language
>> with a shared state. Perhaps luatex will open up enough of TeX to make
>> it feasible to do this; though it would have been nice if those guys had
>> used a Lisp language to extend TeX rather than using Lua.
> Hi Leo,
> I like LaTeX and I still use it intensively, but when it comes to doing calculations I prefer the convenience of an interactive tool such as Maxima, Lisp or Python. For excellent print-quality documents I haven't found anything better than Latex. For a quick presentation an xhtml page with Mathjax will do and I feel that I control better the result, whereas PDF produced by Latex is a black box to me and I can only hope that the user's PDF reader will manage to open it quickly and correctly.
> Something similar to Mathjax written in Lisp would be very nice.
> Cheers,
> Jaime
> 
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