[racket] Maxima in Racket

From: Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp (office at klepp.biz)
Date: Sun Mar 11 10:31:56 EDT 2012

Now tht's really nice! Thanks for sharing.

Nik

Am Sonntag, 11. März 2012 schrieb Jens Axel Søgaard:
> 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.



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