Re: printp()

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Igor Schein wrote:
> ? printp(x^2+1/(a+1)*x+1)
> (x^2 +
>    (1)
>
> ---------
>
>  (a + 1)
>  x + 1)
>
> Shouldn't printp() be renamed to printu(), as in "print ugly" ? :-)
> In all seriousness, I feel that either an effort should be made to
> make printp() reasonable in most generic cases, or it should be dumped
> altogether.  In either event, it's a low priority issue as far as I'm
> concerned.

I would dump it. I don't see how it can possibly be useful to anyone, and it
would kill a large block of useless code.

tex2mail behaves much more sensibly:

(14:55) gp > \o3
   output = 3 (external prettyprint)
(14:55) gp > x^2+1/(a+1)*x+1
      2     1
%1 = x  + -----x + 1
          a + 1

\b should use the external prettyprinter as well.

    Karim.
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