Is there a way to symbolic constants to have them stay correctly in place?

Berns Buenaobra <berns.buenaobra at gmail.com> writes:
> Hi all:
>
> Its a bit awkward and I find that students trying out Maxima can't resist
> to check how well are constants are ordered in the derived relations from a
> text book to a Maxima output.

Have you looked at the ordergreat and orderless functions? For your
first example:

> Consider for example a worksheet snippet:
>
> ('diff(Vin(t),t,1))*C=Vout/R; solve([('diff(Vin(t),t,1))*C=Vout(t)/R],
> [Vout(t)]);

if I do the following, I think I get what you're after:

(%i1) orderless(R,C);
(%o1)                                done
(%i2) first (solve([('diff(Vin(t),t,1))*C=Vout(t)/R], [Vout(t)]));
                                         d
(%o2)                     Vout(t) = R C (-- (Vin(t)))
                                         dt


Hopefully this is some help. There's also a package called "format"
(look in share/contrib/format), which you might be interested in. I
remember spending hours playing with it when I first started using
Maxima but nowadays, I tend to just leave stuff in the form Maxima
chooses by default and do the reordering in my head (if I can...)

Rupert


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