Leo:
Wow, thanks, i had _no_ idea such packages existed, thats why i went to
third party packages.
thanks
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Leo Butler
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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
>