[Axiom-mail] Ugly representation of square roots in console mode

[Alasdair McAndrew]

Axiom represents square roots by a mixture of ascii symbols which are supposed to approximate the square root sign, so that sqrt(2)+sqrt(3) looks like

    +-+    +-+
   \|3  + \|2

(You'll need to view the above in a monospaced font).  And n-th roots are even worse: 2^(1/3)+3^(1/4) comes out as

    4+-+   3+-+
    \|3  + \|2

This is just ugly.  Other CAS's in console mode would simply write

      1/2    1/2
     2    + 3
       
or more simply

     sqrt(2)+sqrt(3)

Can axiom, be coerced to represent n-th and square roots in one of these simpler forms?

-Alasdair