Exporting examples for use in other applications



On 2012-11-12, Christian Stengg <christian.stengg at gmx.at> wrote:

> I use Maxima for automatically generating exercises for my students. For 
> some type of exercise, Maxima produces a list of examples, e.g. a list 
> of equations that should be solved by the students. I'd like to epxort 
> these equations automatically for use in other applications, e.g. for 
> presentation in a webbrowser or for insertion as pictures in some 
> document or for filing in a database. Is it possible to get this done by 
> Maxima? If yes, what different options are there?

Others have mentioned TeX output. There is also a couple of add-on
packages to generate MathML output, namely share/contrib/lurkmathml and
share/contrib/maximaMathML. As far as I know, those packages work OK
although it's possible they're out of date with respect to Maxima and/or
MathML.

best

Robert Dodier