Just so you guys know, work is still ongoing on the user manual.
Volunteers still welcome. (Hint, hint. :-) We've made some progress,
and had some extremely useful contributions. If you want a view of the
current state of affairs, I've put another pdf up at
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/maximabook.pdf. Again, this is extremely
preliminary and Not Ready For Prime Time - my main purpose here is to
see how people like the new Emaxima formatting for the sessions. I've
included Jay's Emaxima documentation, some contributions from Pablo,
the brief history of Maxima, and I've written beginning for the
plotting and output formatting section, a little trig and derivative
stuff, and a Rayleigh Quotient example. Nelson H. F. Beebe's impressive
bibliography (yes it's big, but IMHO it's a darn good resource) and
some misc stuff have also been included. The install section is going
to have to be completely rewritten (I'm happy to say) so it can be
safely ignored for now. We'll work on that section when the new system
is fully up to speed. This pdf is about 1.8 megs, so those with the
slow connections watch out. As usual, this hasn't been edited or
spellechecked, I haven't got all the citations in yet, etc. I'm
basically hoping to inspire some more people to join the effort. For
those of you who have already been so helpful - thanks so much! You've
got us to where we are now.
CY
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