>===== Original Message From Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu> =====
>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.)
Currently the only advantages of GMaxima over XMaxima are the smoother
graphics and the function, matrix, 2D plot, and 3D plot editors. However, the
foundation has been laid and features are pretty easy to implement.
The text window currently uses a non-fixed width font. This will change
with the release I'm about to make (thanks Andrej!). I'm also looking into the
GtkMathView widget (recommended by CY) to display MathML information in a
pretty format.
>Can it run on windows (=95% of audience?)
I'm not sure exactly. Care to give it a compile? If it does, I would love for
someone to make a Windows installer. Andrej Vodopivec has done some good work
on his wxWindows-based client which would use the native controls under
Windows.
>I looked at the screen shots, but that doesn't really
>go beyond demo ware. Fun as it may be for programmers
>looking for math display hacks, it seems to me that Maxima
>does NOT really need yet another almost equivalent front end
>with its own quirks. A superbly engineered better-in-all-ways
>robust, portable, extensible, bug-free, efficient front-end
>available on all platforms with low overhead.. sure. Maybe
>this is GMaxima? If so, say so.
Not yet, but hopefully soon. These sort of things take time. ;)
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Wes Connell
wconnell@txstate.edu