Re: [Maxima-discuss] Yamwi (was: Construct sequence of identifiers)

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

On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 12:42 AM Wolfgang Hugemann <Au...@hu...> wrote:

> The Website is obviously based on Yamwi (https://yamwi.sourceforge.net)
> and shows some behaviour that deviates from wxMaxima. For example, 'v_1'
> does not result in an indexed quantity but is interpreted literally. In
> order to keep the option of using Yamwi, I would have to re-code most of
> my examples :-(.

Well, for the record, Yamwi displays subscripts correctly ... I
recommend subscripts foo[n] instead of foo_n for wxMaxima also.

> Although 'Yamwi' is meant to translate to 'Yet another Maxima web
> interface', I could not find any other functioning web interface on
> https://maxima.sourceforge.io/relatedprojects.html -- or is there any?

I think there have been other attempts but maybe the websites have
gone missing. At present http://maxima.cesga.es is the only one that I
know about, but there may well be others.

As I think has been said already, it looks like the version of Maxima
behind http://maxima.cesga.es is perhaps several years out of date.
That might make it problematic. Hundreds of bugs have been fixed in
Maxima, some significant, some less so, but in any case I would want
to steer others away from old versions of Maxima ... I don't know what
is the possibility of getting http://maxima.cesga.es updated. The
developer of Yamwi (Mario Rodriguez) has also worked on Maxima, maybe
all that's needed is to send him an email.

best,

Robert