Re: [Maxima-discuss] display of large expressions

[Chris S. <C.J...@ed...>]

Richard,
On 18 January 2023 18:39 you said

> Looking for the program, I came across Bruce Miller's paper on formatting expressions in Macsyma in various ways...
> https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/IR/nistir5618.pdf
>
> Even lacking access to the source code it should not be too challenging to (re-)implement these designs, should someone take on this project.

This is currently available in maxima with
load("format");

https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/code/ci/master/tree/share/contrib/format/

Is this what you are suggesting someone might "re-implement"?  Or did I miss something?

I think the format package is masterful in design, I use it a lot and it deserves to be much better known!

Chris
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