Re: [Maxima-discuss] 1) How to display subscripts and superscript in WxMaxima 2) About the Manual ?

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

I don't do scientific typesetting with Word, but with TeX. Maxima has
commands to direct TeX stuff
to a file. For Word, I suppose you would start by using the writefile
command,
perhap with playback,  to put results in a file.  this could be inserted
into a Word document.
You could then replace all occurrences of v1   with  whatever Word idiom
you need to use.
RJF

On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 7:01 AM Fran_3 <mai...@ya...> wrote:

> Thank you Richard. That was helpful.
> As a newbie I was interested in this comment you made...
>
> "If you are eventually obligated to have subscripts for typesetting, you
> can make appropriate substitutions of the right forms for your
> typesetting system, say TeX, after saving your interactions in a file. "
>
> 1 - How would I prepare for typesetting?
> 2 - And by "typesetting" I'm guessing you mean placing the calculations
> into a program that can be printed... like Microsoft Word, Libre Office,
> Google Docs or whatever... right?
> 3 - And then sent to your printing device or saved as a PDF for a
> commercial printer... correct?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
>
>
> On Friday, March 18, 2022, 09:12:04 PM EDT, Richard Fateman <
> fa...@gm...> wrote:
>
>
> There are several ways of doing this. If you are using wxmaxima, v[1]
> will display with a subscript.
> You can also read about declare_index_properties,   which would allow you
> to, for example, display
> the 1  as a pre-superscript.  You may also find that v_1  works.
>
> However, I suggest you use v0, v1,  etc. Why? They are simpler to type,
> they are more compact, not
> using more vertical space, and you are not using them for anything else.
>
>   If you are eventually obligated
> to have subscripts for typesetting, you can make appropriate substitutions
> of the right forms for your
> typesetting system, say TeX, after saving your interactions in a file.
>
> simplest is probably just v[1].    but if you assign a value to v[1]  say
>  v[1]:100,  then typing
> v[1] will display as 100.  'v[1]  may do what you want.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 4:48 PM Fran_3 via Maxima-discuss <
> max...@li...> wrote:
>
> 1) When naming a variable...
> How can I create a sub script in WxMaxima? For example V at time zero or t
> subscript 2, etc?
> (I tried V(0):1; but that gave me an error so how to do this?)
> 1a) Ditto for superscript
>
> 2) I went to "https://maxima.sourceforge.io/index.html"
> and clicked on Documentation
> and then clicked on Reference Manual PDF
> And then did a Ctl-F to find
> entered subscript
> and found over 100 results
> too many to plow through..
>
> So hopefully some kind soul here will just tell me how to do it.
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
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