Bug 330478 - Issue with LaTeX output for maxima backend
Summary: Issue with LaTeX output for maxima backend
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: cantor
Classification: Applications
Component: maxima-backend (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified All
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Alexander Rieder
URL: http://tinypic.com/r/55441k/5
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Reported: 2014-01-27 19:03 UTC by justinkb
Modified: 2016-07-08 07:55 UTC (History)
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Description justinkb 2014-01-27 19:03:36 UTC
Check URL for linked image.

LaTeX mtimes symbol defined in cantor-initmaxima.lisp produces the bad output at the bottom of the linked image, which makes it look at it says 6 has one prime factor, namely 23.

My patch makes it produce the improved output at the top of the linked image, where we can clearly read the prime factorization as 2 times 3.

Needless to say, this output problem is very problematic in all kinds of contexts.

(This is with TeXLive 2003, but I am fairly sure other TeX distributions are affected as well)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. enter any maxima input that might produce output which contains mtimes symbol, e.g. factor(6)
2. look at output
3. notice the problem
Actual Results:  
Bad output, reading as 23

Expected Results:  
Good output readable as 2 times 3

Patch to fix this issue is here http://bpaste.net/show/172719/

I'm marking it as severity normal, instead of cosmetical, since it makes the maxima backend a lot less useful than it could be
Comment 1 Alexander Semke 2016-07-08 07:55:48 UTC
Works fine in v16.07. Seems to be fixed already.