The Maxima on-line user’s manual can be viewed in different forms. From the
Maxima interactive prompt, the user’s manual is viewed as plain text by the
?
command (i.e., the describe
function). The user’s manual is
viewed as info
hypertext by the info
viewer program and as a
web page by any ordinary web browser.
example
displays examples for many Maxima functions. For example,
(%i1) example (integrate);
yields
(%i2) test(f):=block([u],u:integrate(f,x),ratsimp(f-diff(u,x))) (%o2) test(f) := block([u], u : integrate(f, x), ratsimp(f - diff(u, x))) (%i3) test(sin(x)) (%o3) 0 (%i4) test(1/(x+1)) (%o4) 0 (%i5) test(1/(x^2+1)) (%o5) 0
and additional output.