On 2012-12-03, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Display with display2d=false, string, and grind should produce output that
> is suitable for input to Maxima. * In addition*, 'grind' tries to indent
> nicely (pretty-print) -- see below. The documentation for display2d should
> probably be improved to clarify this.
It's OK by me if display2d=false and grind both produce readable output.
(In fact DISPLA punts to MGRIND so they are actually the same.)
Volker, about your original problem, to get unreadable (i.e. nice)
output, you could just have something like:
block ([display2d : true], print (build_info ()));
best,
Robert Dodier