Re: [Maxima-discuss] Cheating Around Maxima Latex

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

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 4:59 PM Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...>
wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > 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.
>

You misunderstood me.  I was really talking about TeX output for
publication.

I've never had any issues with the TeX output from maxima; it's always been
correct.  The form may not be what I would use for publication, but it
matches the formula just fine.

>
> best,
>
> Robert Dodier
>


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Ray