I was wondering whether it might be possible for some JPG screen captures of a Maxima
session, perhaps showing how (simple) graphics actually appear on screen, could be
attached to an email to show those, like me, who haven't installed Maxima yet what they
can expect to see. I might have mentioned on another thread that I was introduced to
Maxima by a part-time teacher at one of the schools I attended to do one of my trainee
teaching (aka pre-service teaching) "pracs".
Does the "screen" layout of the input and output, as shown in other threads actually look
that way on a Maxima screen or does it appear more like that on a Maple screen? That is,
is it just the migration of the example to an ASCII emailer that makes equations difficult
to read?
As a university student, at the University of Canberra, doing a Bachelor of Education in
Maths/Science, we are using Maple 8 Student Edition for our Maths 1 & 2 computer "labs"
and for basic "stuff" I find this a good program and last semester bought myself a copy.
I hope the above is taken in the positive way intended and would be interested in any
comments.
Thank you for your assistance in these matters.
Regards,
Paul Myers
Raymond Toy wrote:
> >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Ulrich Kruppa <kruppa@pukruppa.net> writes:
>
> >> What is a box plot? How is that different from y- vs x-axis diagrams?
> >> Whenever I plot anything with maxima and gnuplot, I get nice x vs y
> >> graphs that I would expect. Something like (very crude ASCII graphics
> >> here)
> >>
> >>
> >> y-label
> >> 2 + ...............
> >> | .
> >> | .
> >> 1 + .
> >> |
> >> |
> >> 0 +-----+-----+-----+-----+--
> >> 0 1 2 3 4
>
> Peter> box plot:
>
> Peter> y 2 +--------------------------------+
> Peter> | : |
> Peter> 1 + . |
> Peter> | . |
> Peter> 0 + . |
> Peter> | . |
> Peter> -1 + . |
> Peter> |. |
> Peter> +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
> Peter> -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5
> Peter> x
>
> Other than the box, I don't really see how that is significantly
> different from what I drew. But I guess you want something different.
>
> >> Anyway, you can use plot2d_ps for now if you really want postscript
> >> output.
> Peter> It seems you can't set any y-Range in this, can you?
>
> You can, but I see it appears to make no difference. :-(
>
> Since I don't know postscript, about all I can do is, perhaps, make
> plot2d accept a plot_format of ps and run plot2d_ps appropriately.
>
> Someone else will have to fix the postscript plotting routines.
>
> Ray
>
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