Symbolic Package Display

[Thomas D. Dean]

I use X and command line octave on Linux.  Seems like the interaction of
the GUI, me, and other applications have difficulties.  I frequently
cut/paste between applications in multiple xterms.  Anyway, I prefer the
command line.

The output of the symbolic package is not useful.

From a previous post:

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octave:478> [x1 y2]=solve(eq1,eq2,x,y)
x1 = (sym)

  2â
b
  âââ
   a

octave:488> x1
x1 = (sym)

  2â
b
  âââ
   a

octave:489> x1.ascii
ans = 2*b
---
 a
octave:490> disp(x1)
  2â
b
  âââ
   a
octave:491> y2.ascii
ans = 3*b

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Is there some setting that will change this?

Tom Dean