Re: [Maxima-discuss] Encoding of bold, underscored, subscripted and superscripted identifiers by wxmaxima

[Gunter K. <gu...@pe...>]

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I would like a real subscript mechanism, too, mainly because one can
still impress other people by having an easy way of entering them;
Superscripts I have never used until now.

Hashed arrays are close enough to the Real Thing for most purposes
that allowing to add properties to individual hash array entries,
resolving a few incompatibilities (for example numericalio won't
accept a[1] as a parameter that is to be fitted to a curve) and
finding out why hashed arrays are sometimes astonishingly slow (I have
still to find a minimal example for this before this issue can be
resolved) would make them a real subscript mechanism for me.

If a new notation is needed for super-and subscript your notation
isn't bad since it doesn't collide with anything maxima currently accept
s.

Telling wxMaxima to convert your notation to some
non-suspicious-looking variable name maxima can work with and then
converting maxima's output back would be doable, too. But I vote
against this option:
This would mean that you can enter things that are legal for wxMaxima
- - but will throw an error in maxima itself as they will in xMaxima,
Jupyter, the maxima mode of emacs, Maxima on Android (which is an
excellent work, too), maxima as a stand-alone-program and everything I
have forgotten to mention. And it would give strange results with
wxMaxima and display2d:false. Also any kind of URL-encoding of strings
tends to collide with variable names that sooner or later will be
actually used by a user.
Also this would mean that wxMaxima's input might be in a format half
of the readers of this list won't be able to deal with and it would
mean that maxima's TeX output would be - strange while wxMaxima's TeX
output would work file if sub- ore superscripts are used.

If on the other hand the subscript- and superscript feature would be
added to maxima's core and someone would help me with the
wxmathml.lisp part of the feature I would volunteer adding the
necessary code to wxMaxima.

Kind regards,

     Gunter.
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