[Maxima] How to have Greek letters displayed using the Greek alphabet??

[Julien Martin]

thanks for the tip!

2009/10/30 Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at stericsson.com>

> Julien Martin wrote:
> > Hello,
> > It seems it is possible to display Greek letters using the Greek
> > alphabet in maxima. (seen here:
> > http://www.neng.usu.edu/cee/faculty/gurro/Maxima.html)
> > How do I do that please?
> Doesn't that use wxMaxima?  Will wxMaxima will for you?
>
> I don't use wxMaxima, but with a suitable lisp capable of unicode, I can
> do things like:
>
> (%i15) display2d:false;
> (%o15) false
> (%i16) α^2+2*α*β+β^2;
> (%o16) β^2+2*α*β+α^2
> (%i17) factor(%);
> (%o17) (β+α)^2
>
> (Note that I entered the alpha character as alpha, using a single
> keystroke from the keyboard, using the appropriate input method.)
>
> But %pi still comes out as %pi, which is different from  π.
>
> Ray
>
>
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