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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 03:49:15PM -0500, Puck Ja wrote:
> The expression x[1] in Maxima is actually a list element, but wxMaxima and
> TeXmacs will display it as x_sub_1, which is very nice to read especially
> when you deal with long expression.  I have been use this to put subscript
> under variables.  However, it is a bad habit in terms of Maxima usage.
> 
> If the frontend engine, such as wxMaxima or TeXmacs can display x_1 as
> (imagine this in your mind) x_sub_1, then the frontend did its great job by
> display the Maxima results in a more human readable form.

Yes, it seems that there is some ambiguity in our output here.

Andrey: when transforming variable names into TeX,
you should rewrite underscores into \_,
so that they cannot be confused with the .[.] access operator.

Best wishes, Joris