On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 07:11:21AM -0700, Richard Fateman wrote:
> Can you explain the advantages for using GMaxima? Any
> disadvantages? (e.g. do you just copy the same primitive
> display as Xmaxima? From your screen shots, it seems that you
> don't have the spacing right. x^2 has the 2 above the x.)
> Can it run on windows (=95% of audience?)
It looks like GMaxima is written with GTK+ (correct me if wrong Wes),
which is portable to a lot of OSes, including Windows. Also, having
done a little bit of work with both GTK+ and Tcl/Tk in the past, I must
say that I much prefered working with GTK+.
Not only that, but GTK seems to be far more popular these days than Tk,
which means more usres will be capable of submitting good bug reports and
patches.
--
Ross Vandegrift
ross@willow.seitz.com
"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who
make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians
have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine
man in the bonds of Hell."
--St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37