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

[Wolfgang H. <Au...@Hu...>]

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

Thanks for that hint. But in engineering subscripts are not always meant 
as a variable index, but often serve as a means to distinguish quantities.

If you denote the drag coefficient as c_d 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_(physics)), you surely don't mean 
c[d]. (Strict LaTeX notation would than be c_{\text{d}} instead of c_d, 
at least when following German mathematical notation rules.)

Addressing two vehicles in collision mechanics, you could however think 
of indices 1 and 2 as sort of a run variable, although that's rather 
uncommon.

Wolfgang Hugemann