Jaime E. Villate

In this case I think it is a bug of the m4 macros that Raymond introduced to parse mathematical equations. The original expression in the manual source was an ASCII only equation. I think the m4 macro should use only ASCII for the 2d representation of the equation in the info manual.

Generating maxima-index-gcl.lisp, without utf-8 characters, would not solve the problem. As Raymond has explained, texinfo introduces utf-8 characters that were not present in the Maxima documents sources. I did get correct info files with GCL using an older version of texinfo that didn't add extra utf-8 characters.

Symbol $box being changed to mbox

You're right. Fixed by commit [4be0ef]

As I have suggested to you before, there could be a second set of Debian packages, maxima-sbcl or something else, besides the packages maintained by Camm.

I agree with Robert, and I'm still puzzled by the fact that Maxima 5.49 + GCL works fine for me but fails for Raymond and Jerome.

Changed the first plot2d example in the Introduction.

Updates the plot3d example in the Introduction chapter of the manual.