wxMaxima 0.6.0



C Y writes:

>--- James Amundson  wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:52, Mike Thomas wrote:
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>>>It would reflect very positively on Maxima itself  to include
>>>wxMaxima which, although not as featureful as XMaxima, has the 
>>>air of solidity and responsiveness that hardened end-users 
>>>expect on Windows.
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>>I am seriously considering this proposal. What interests me is your
>>point of view that XMaxima is more featureful -- I would have said
>>the opposite. I really only use XMaxima for testing XMaxima, so 
>>maybe I'm missing something. Which XMaxima features do you find 
>>lacking in wxMaxima?
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>>--Jim
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>The only area of importance I'm aware of is translations - there was
>some work done a while back on making translations of the menus (and I
>think possibly Greek characters as well) available in Xmaxima.  If this
>can be done for wxMaxima I am not aware of anything else I would
>consider a significant advantage in Xmaxima.  Lord knows the inline
>plotting isn't good enough to be counted.  I do prefer to have the
>input point located in the document instead of as a separate area, but
>that's certainly not a showstopper.
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>CY
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Making translation for wxMaxima is not a problem IMHO.
Three translation (Italian, French and Spanish) are availeble
and I can readily supply Russian.

As for embedded plotting in xmaxima - I really don't think
it is very convenient.

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     Vadim V. Zhytnikov