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This is Andy Hefner's McCLIM formula display code, and an initial effort by Raymond Toy at getting a Maxima REPL display in an McCLIM window. Licenses: Public Domain for Andy Hefner's code (formula.lisp) Raymond Toy's code is GPL Committer's note concerning formula.lisp: This is mainly being uploaded to make sure I can find a copy sometime in the future. It doesn't have any ties to Maxima right now. Below is preserved part of an IRC discussion on formula.lisp, mainly so I (CY) remember what some of the issues were. <starseeker> what license, by the way? <hefner> dunno, that's a standard disclaimer for me. I guess if you don't expect it to ever reach quite 'TeX' quality output it's pretty sound. Right now I haven't worked out how/when it should emit parenthesis according to operator precedence, that's the major issue. <hefner> license is whatever, public domain I guess <starseeker> Cool :-) <starseeker> I don't think tex quality is called for, at least not right away - Mathematica doesn't achieve it <starseeker> Neither does word, for that matter ;-) <hefner> true enough <starseeker> Can it handle stuff like integral signs and summations? * starseeker is busily emailing himself the links. <hefner> not yet. I need to work out an interface to symbol fonts across the two mcclim backends, then I'll look at that. <hefner> but there's no reason in theory why it couldn't <starseeker> I've wondered about that - should those be done with fonts or drawing? <hefner> I'm thinking fonts <starseeker> that's the harder way, right? <starseeker> granted it'll look better <hefner> I think that's the easier way, actually. The fonts should already exist. :) <starseeker> Well, almost - http://www.stixfonts.org <starseeker> yes - I was thinking about resizing them in response to the expression they relate to - drawings you can tie the dimensions in x and y to the size of the expression - how would that work for fonts? <hefner> something creeping up my todo list is a little glue code that lets me match text sizes with pixel sizes (which I intended to use for trying to match the sizes of divisors/dividends more closely, but you could use it here too) <starseeker> Hmm. That's a possibility, but doesn't that break down when generating postscript/pdf? <hefner> well s/pixel/device unit/ <starseeker> ok. <starseeker> My worry is if you have something like x^2/(x^3+y)^2 in 2D inside an integral, the font may or may not have an integral symbol to fit. Or am I underestimating fonts? <hefner> ah.. yeah, that could be a problem. the x11 symbol font here is bitmapped and goes up to 34 pixels high. that's too small, actually <starseeker> I think that's why maple does it with drawing lines <starseeker> the original macsyma gui I think did too <starseeker> Mathematica I can't remember <hefner> you could just pester people to install a scalable symbol font.