Re: [Maxima-discuss] indexes and summation conventions / subscripts etc

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

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> I agree with this completely, and what Richard says above.
> 
> But what Robert did is basically a 2D display mechanism, so I
> don't have a big problem with that except for the fact that it's
> now easy to confuse a post subscript with a pre subscript.  I
> notice that all of his examples were sums where it can't really be
> confused. :-)
> 
Perhaps one should use such features only if this really is the case.
On the other hand finding a workflow adapt for the kind of problems
one encounters always tends to be a vital part of using a complex
program so perhaps one has to live with this risk.
> 
> My keyboard doesn't have an greek letters on it, and I can never 
> remember the magic keystrokes to enter them that they basically
> don't exist for me.  :-)  But that's my problem.
> 

The same is still true for virtually everybody else. But in the next
version there will be a greek sidebar that was written for kind of
announcing that the program supports unicode - and the program
provides an input method for greek letters: an alpha can be produced
by pressing <ESC>, typing alpha [in latin letters] and pressing <ESC>
again - or by typing <ESC>a<ESC>.

Kind regards,

 Gunter.
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