New release of wxmaxima



Na 1099070784, 2004-10-29 ob 19:26, je Barton Willis napisal(a):
> The new version of wxMaxima looks nice. (I tried it on XP.) 
> Two things I noticed 
> 
> (a) Functions with zero arguments do not look right---instead of
> parenthesis, I see two fuzzy triangular blobs. The input matrix()
> generates an error and halts maxima.

This has been fixed. I uploaded version 0.5.1.

> (b) Positional derivatives do not display correctly. Try
> 
> (%o1) load("pdiff");
> 
> (%o2) diff(f(x),x);
> 
> pderivop(f,1)(x)
> 
> This isn't wrong, but try the same with xmaxima to see the output
> that is expected.

The display in wxmaxima is handled by wxmathml.lisp which is based on
mactex.lisp. This is based on mathml, but changed a lot (so is really
xml, not mathml). The package pdiff teaches tex how to display the
output of diff(f(x),x) and this can easily be modified to teach wxmaxima
how to display it (using tags it already supports). However if you want
to be able to copy the output to input line, I will have to add a new
tag to wxmaxima (also not hard, but more work). What would you expect in
the input line if you copy/paste the output of something like
diff(f(x,x^2),x)?

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Andrej Vodopivec <andrej.vodopivec@fmf.uni-lj.si>