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

[Andrey G. G. <A.G...@in...>]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2017, Raymond Toy wrote:
> Yeah, the last time I needed output from maxima in a document, I ended
> up rewriting the tex result.  Maxima's ordering of terms and variables
> was rarely ever the order I wanted that would be typical for the
> context.
>
> Kind of sucked because that was yet another way for me to screw up the
> final result, but oh well.  Get a proof reader who actually reads and
> understands, I guess.
We in the community of calculations of multiloop Feynman diagrams often 
publish quite long expressions derived by some CAS. It is never possible 
to obtain a satisfactory result automatically (order of factors and of 
terms, what to pull out of brackets, line breaks, etc.). I do the 
following:

1. Write the LaTeX formula by hand
2. Convert it (as automatically as possible) to the CAS language
3. Subtract it from the CAS result, obtain 0

I think this is a reasonable way not to screw up the published result.

Andrey