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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Wed, 12 May 2004, J. Hart wrote:
> Question :
>
>        A copy from a "math mode" displayed expression and
>     paste to a Maxima session input line gives TeX code
>     rather than valid Maxima syntax ?  Is this to be
>     expected ?  Will this be changed in the future ?

The point is that the Maxima input and output formats don't match.
So this is really a problem of Maxima. It might be fixed in the future,
but that really depends on the Maxima developers. They basically should
output sin(x) instead of sin x and a macro or so for integrals.
For other systems like Pari or Mupad, copy and paste works as expected.

> Example :
>
>        The following Maxima expression is entered on a
>     "normal mode" Maxima input line :
>
>        integrate((exp(x*x)*sin(x))/(x*x),x);
>
>        A copy from the "math mode" displayed response and
>     paste to a Maxima session "normal mode" input line gives :
>
>        int(((e^(x^2)*sin x)/(x^2))d*x
>
>     This is not valid Maxima syntax.
>
>     e.g.
>        The "integration symbol" is not entered as "integrate"
>        "dx" is not entered as ",x)"
>        "sin x" is not entered as "sin(x)" ?