Re: [Maxima-discuss] Splitting maxima output across multiple lines in Latex

[Richard F. <fa...@be...>]

My (now rather old...) experience with breqn is that it is not very good.

The real issue, in my opinion,  is why are you displaying (very?) long
expressions?  For human consumption in a journal article?  To
read on a video display or projection (powerpoint)?>

Consider that there are tools like pickapart, or subst, or ...
to modify an expression to be smaller.  Or maybe put the
coefficients of a long polynomial in a table or excel
spreadsheet.  Any of these ideas can make it easier
to comprehend an expression.

There was, in Matlab '68 a feature of the display
that used tree indentation.  Suppose that A and B
are so large that A+B cannot fit on one line.
Then display as
+
   A
   B

This can be recursively implemented, if A and/or B are
too long...

+
   * C
      D
   B

etc.

oh, also for journal publication, breaking up formulas
by hand probably lets the author demonstrate some
aspects of the formula that would otherwise be
obscured by "automatic" line breaking.

I'm ok with auto linebreaking of very regular
structures, and expressions that run over a few lines.
Multiple-page displays cannot be comprehended
except grossly as "see how long it is" and "see that
the computer did this without mistakes, and so fast..."


RJF

On 3/23/2017 10:16 PM, Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 2017-03-23, Soegtrop, Michael <mic...@in...> wrote:
>
>> AMS TeX has reasonable support for automated line breaking
> What needs to change, in the Maxima TeX output, in order to support
> AMSTeX line breaking?
>
> best
>
> Robert Dodier
>
>
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