--- "Nikolaos I. Ioakimidis" <ioakimidis@otenet.gr> wrote:
> But perhaps the best choice for you just now is to study Cliff's
> book and Cliff has been so kind to make it available in PDF through
> an e-mail attachment. (This is surely preferable to attempting to
> prepare this PDF file yourself from the LaTeX sources distributed
> with Maxima 5.9.0 in the directory \doc\maximabook after unzip.)
> Many thanks to Cliff for his kind help and really so careful work
> with Maxima.
It's not just mine - many authors have contributed to this.
If I get a lot of requests for this I can upload a PDF, but it is most
definitely not ready for prime time.
> The final point would be the preparation of a new Maxima
> Reference Manual taking into account the present commands'
> status of Maxima 5.9.0 (and in the share library too) and including
> instructions, comments and examples for all of the commands (after
> actual tests of them) in a uniform way, this is very important. Mike
> may wish to undertake this task, I am not sure, but it requires much
> time and effort for a complete revision of his present so interesting
> and already very useful DOE-Maxima Reference Manual. In fact,
> I consult it quite frequently.
That is a truly enormous task, but is one that must eventually be
attempted. It is not and cannot be a task of any one person.
Eventually, I hope it will be an automatic part of adding to Maxima
that the documentation is updated. I don't know if we are at the point
of starting to create that system yet, but I fear the time draws near
;).
CY
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