Re: [Maxima-discuss] Cheating Around Maxima Latex

[Robert D. <rob...@gm...>]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 3:57 PM Raymond Toy <toy...@gm...> wrote:

> I agree. I want Maxima to produce the correct answers.  Then it's up to me to have the TeX form be in the format I want. For example, it's impossible for Maxima to know if I want \frac or \displayfrac.  Or what the order of the variables should be when I format it.
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> I pretty much expect to have to do some editing of the TeX form to produce what I want.  And what I want may not be what you want.

I dunno, this feels too pessimistic to me, the situation is really
more rosy than that. Maxima can already do a decent job with the vast
majority of run of the mill expressions, and something comprehensible
otherwise, and if Maxima's tex output is really lacking in some way,
by all means, let's fix it.

Maxima's tex output is the basis for the stuff that's displayed (via
MathJax I guess) by Jupyter, and it's more than workable. If I were
going to publish a paper, sure, I might tweak the output, but for
everyday stuff, Maxima's tex is quite sufficient.

best,

Robert Dodier