latex output

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   On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>wrote:

   > On 2013-06-06, jiun bookworm <thebookworm101 at gmail.com> wrote:
   >
   > > Im tying to render some output from maxima, and i found some libraries i
   > > was using to convert  the ascii to mathml   inadequte, is there some
   > maxima
   > > "trick " to always get replies in latex?
   >
   > What library did you try for generating MathML output?


   i was playing with  asciimathpython  and asciitomathml , both available on
   pypi
   i basically did :
    display2d: false$
   and converted the output to mathml which i used to render in a browser, but
   they seem to produce inacuarate  results for complex output, an example is
   the result from the last command here is done wrong by those python
   libraries:

   display2d:false$
   integrate(1/((x-3)^4+1/2), x);
   changevar (%, x - 3 - y ,y ,x);
   ev (%, integrate);

   you can compare the tow images here of my render and wxmaxima's
   http://imgur.com/t5JaH7F,LTMB9bx#0
   http://imgur.com/t5JaH7F,LTMB9bx#1

   i so i was hoping i could get the latex directly from maxima, rather than
   introduce some intermediate step thats introducing regressions to my code.

Ahh, I understand better what you want. As Robert says, there are
packages in Maxima to do this without screenscraping:

(%i1) load('mathml);
(%o1) /home/work/maxima/sandbox/maxima-current-release/share/contrib/lurkmathm\
l/mathml.lisp
(%i2) x/y;
                                       x
(%o2)                                  -
                                       y
(%i3) mathml(%);
<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">; <mfrac><mrow>
 <mi>x</mi> </mrow> <mrow><mi>y</mi> </mrow></mfrac> </math>(%o3)                                false
(%i4) :lisp (setf *alt-display2d* (lambda(x) (mfuncall '$mathml x)))

#<FUNCTION (LAMBDA (X)) {C8B76CD}>
(%i4) x/y;
<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">; <mi>mlabel</mi>
 <mfenced separators=""><mfrac><mrow><mi>x</mi> </mrow> <mrow>
 <mi>y</mi> </mrow></mfrac> <mo>,</mo><mfrac><mrow><mi>x</mi>
 </mrow> <mrow><mi>y</mi> </mrow></mfrac> </mfenced> </math>


Leo