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

[Robert D. <rob...@gm...>]

On 2015-12-15, Richard Fateman <fa...@be...> wrote:

> My suggestion is that if you are used fixed size and spacing fonts and  
> cannot  reliably distinguish

>    where one of them is  x presubscript 2     and the other is  2^x
>
> Then you should display x presubscript 2  as    x[2].   Or...

Or, um, don't use presubscript notation.

> There are other  linear notations one can make up,  e.g. 
> x_4cornerscounterclockwise_nil_nil_nil_2

Notations like that are clumsy -- I'm not too fond of anything that
encourages using 'concat' to construct symbols -- but what's worse is
that such an object is no longer the same kind of thing as the existing
x[2]. I think that's a show-stopper.

best

Robert Dodier