On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:30:09AM -0500, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> > The weakness for this free or share soft is that there are
> > little documents for them in chinese.
>
> Well, in the case of Maxima, we certainly need to improve the
> documentation in English, too :-( !!!
>
> More seriously, much of the documentation of free systems is also free,
> and can be *legally* translated into other languages by individuals or
> groups of individuals.
>
> I imagine that there are courses at your university in "English for
> engineering/science students" or in "technical translation of English".
> Couldn't they be organized to systematically translate existing free
> documentation? This would be excellent training for the students (with
> supervision), and it would produce a valuable result.
>
> -s
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This is a good idea.But no one do this up to now. I knew Maxima from a
homepage of a CS PhD student, who's name is Wang Yin.
(http://learn.tsinghua.edu.cn/homepage/015450/maxima.html This is the
address,it is in chinese)
Before it, I only
knew Mathematica and Matlab.And I did my gruaduation thesis for Bachalor
degree by the help of Matlab. But now,I decide not to be a thief,I changed
my OS from MS Windows to GNU/Linux and try to learn free software such as
Maxima and Octave.
There is a Linux club in my Univ, I think I should tell them your advises.
Yin Zhangqi