How to fix the \tag{}\label{} glitch in the wxMaxima “export to HTML” output

wxmaxima_tag_error

**Update:   This seems to be fixed in  wxMaxima versions > 16.04, but it remains an issue for MacOS users, who for the moment are stuck with an older version of wxMaxima.*****

The work flow in some of my classes involves:

  1. students doing work in wxMaxima
  2. exporting to HTML
  3. printing as PDF
  4. submitting the resulting document to a Dropbox link

The process is usually very slick, with only a few headaches.  Here is one such pain:  occasionally the result of a Maxima command will be displayed in the HTML document like as

wxmaxima_tag_error

That seems to happen if the expression name (here the matrix A) has been used before in the same session and the mathjax  latex-ish tag labeling gets confused by a multiply-defined tag.

To work around that, unselect the “Show user-defined labels instead of (%oxx)” option in Configure/Preferences.  That way, unless an exported document is the result non-re-evaluated cells between several Maxima sessions, the labels should be unique.

tag_error_fix

And one last thing:  If the work has been done (and saved) between several wxMaxima seesions, it’s possible that the number output lines like %o23 etc  might not be unique, so before exporting, I suggest Cell –> Evaluate All Cells.

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