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

[Martin M. <mar...@gm...>]

 >All the people i know who make heavy use of symbolic
>computation (be it in maxima, maple or mathematica) use the following
>workflow: type the command in a text editor (vi, emacs, etc.) copy
>paste in a console running the computation, modify the command in the
>editor if one is not happy with the result, and iterate. This is the way
>to get a clean copy of all the steps involved.

Does there exist an editor which can make autocomplete without calculating
so  I can write the code and then calculate it. But the editor should show
me when I begin a function the parameters which this function need?

2015-12-14 18:39 GMT+01:00 Leo Butler <l_b...@us...>:

>  "Roland Salz" <ma...@ro...> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > Mathematical literature makes extensive use of bold characters in order
> to
> > give semantic value to identifiers, e.g. mark an identifier to be a
> vector
> > or a tensor.
>
>  Actually, this is an incorrect statement. As a mathematician, I would
>  characterize the use of boldface font in order to distinguish "vectors"
>  from "scalars" as a crutch used by non-mathematicians (which we
>  propagate in teaching non-mathematicians).
>
> > In order to keep formulas readable, every identifier is kept as
> > short as possible, even though loaded with all the information necessary.
> > Unfortunately, in programming languages 'bold' is not a semantic value
> but
> > merely a style of presentation. The user of maxima, if he thinks
> > mathematically in bold - non bold categories, has to somehow translate
> this
> > semantic difference, but he does not find a really satisfying way.
> > Identifiers become longer and formulas less readable.
>
>  Unicode has an extended set of characters that let you capture much of
>  this. See the attached screenshot for a sample in Maxima (run inside
>  Emacs), using the unicodedate package.
>
>  This is orthogonal to your suggestions and the other comments in this
>  thread.
>
>  Leo
>
>
>
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