[Maxima] More on how to print complicated objects...

[Richard Fateman]

On 5/18/2012 7:43 AM, Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 2012-05-18, Rupert Swarbrick<rswarbrick at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Am I right in thinking that grind() is conceptually equivalent to print
>> in Lisp with *print-readably* true,
yes
>>   and that the usual display is more
>> similar to princ?
not really.  The display programs (there are several, in various front 
ends and in the core system)
are mostly like a typesetting system, e.g. writing TeX, processing it 
into PostScript, and previewing it.
Except that all the pieces are done in one burst.