[racket] Maxima in Racket

From: Jens Axel Søgaard (jensaxel at soegaard.net)
Date: Sun Mar 11 06:58:03 EDT 2012

Hi All,

The Maxima in Racket experiment now has a working REPL.
I have attached a screenshot.

The Maxima command tex(expr) will convert an expression into TeX.
Jays slideshow-latex package is used to turn the TeX into a bitmap,
that can be displayed in DrRacket.

One problem though:  I'd like for long equations to render into wider
bitmaps. For example: tex( expand( (x+1)^20 ) ); uses 8 lines which
could easily fit into 3 lines.

Any suggestions?

Note: The TeX produced from Maxima doesn't break equations,
so I have used the breqn LaTeX package to get automatic
line breaks. However setting the paper size to sizes larger than a4
didn't produce wider bitmaps.

-- 
Jens Axel Søgaard
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