[Aimmath-developers] aim/Latex package

[Gustav W D. <gw...@yo...>]

As you know, I am passing the AiM latex output through pdflatex to obtain
nicely typeset problem and solution sheets. Unfortunately it turns out that
the latex that AiM produces has some shortcomings. I need help from people
who understand the aim/Latex package to overcome these problems.

As far as I understand the aim/Latex package has 3 goals:

1) remove shortcomings in Maple's Latex,

2) avoid some of the simplifications that Maple would do automatically that
the Inert package doesn't want,

3) change the latex so that it looks good after conversion by tth.

Now I think 1) and 2) are a good idea. Obviously I am not so excited about
3) because what makes tth look good doesn't necessarily look good when
typeset. Clearly I would want to switch off this tth conditioning to produce
good latex output. That would be easy to do if only I knew which parts of
aim/Latex served which goal.

Some things are obvious, for example typesetting $e^x$ with a bold e is good
for on-screen display but something I would want to switch off for
conventional mathematical typesetting. Another thing that I certainly want
to switch off is the typesetting of $\sqrt{2}$ as $2^{1/2}$. But there
already I have difficulties finding where it is done. Can you help?

Finally there is the matter of the missing \ in front of \cos and similar
things. I don't know if that is a bug or part of 3)

Gustav