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

[Raymond T. <toy...@gm...>]

>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...> writes:

    Robert> On 2015-12-14, Raymond Toy <toy...@gm...> wrote:
    >> But I wonder how maxima (not wxMaxima) will display it.  Will it be
    >> 
    >> i k
    >> x
    >> j l

    Robert> Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

    >> Currently x[2]*y is displayed as
    >> 
    >> x  y
    >> 2
    >> 
    >> I think it would be hard to distinguish between x * y(pre-subscript
    >> 2):
    >> 
    >> x  y
    >> 2

    Robert> I dunno, I'm not too worried about if. If someone doesn't like that,
    Robert> they don't need to make the index a pre-subscript ....

That's not always up to me if I want to use some package that does
this.

If we do this, I really think there needs to be a way to make this
less ambiguous.  An extra space is just too little to make it clear.
I would hate it, but even adding parens would be better than nothing.

--
Ray