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

[Michel T. <ta...@lp...>]

Le 14/12/2015 23:06, Robert Dodier a écrit :
> I'm pushing the idea that pre/post super/subscripts are properties of
> indices. One would write x[i, j, k, l] (or whatever number of indices)
> and separately declare that the first index is a presuperscript, the
> second whatever, etc. That way (1) the computational properties are
> unchanges, and (2) any display system which doesn't know about different
> kinds of indices displays it as it does now. These both seem like a big
> win to me. What do you think?

This seems like a very nice idea. Moreover this would open the way to an 
automatic check that indices are properly contracted and summed, e.g.
in general relativity computations.

-- 
Michel Talon