hello all,
i have downloaded and installed maxima-5.9.2.10cvs.exe and the
pt and es language installers. many thanks to vadim.
after setting *maxima-lang-subdir* to "es" or "pt",
i get some successful and non-successful results for ? <foo>.
? solve => false
? read => some functions in numericalio.info
? sum => some functions in simplification.info
? product => some functions from linearalgebra.info
numericalio.info, simplification.info, and linearalgebra.info are not
translated (english-language version only).
? simp => some topics from maxima.info, simplification.info, and stringproc.info
the stuff from maxima.info is the following:
0: (maxima.info)Simplificaci?n.
1: Definiciones para Simplificaci?n.
so the accented letter "o" seems to be messed up (it appears as
a less than or equal special character).
that is strange, since accents appear correct if i open maxima.info-*
in wordpad.
items 0 and 1 are @node's in the texinfo file. all per-function and
per-variable items are not @node's; instead cl-info looks a regular expression.
i believe the reason describe fails to find solve, read, sum, etc in
maxima.info is that the regular expression does not include accented
characters. i believe it is easy to modify it -- i will try that later.
incidentally i find that ? a and ? e find lots of topics, but not, however,
any per-function or per-variable items in maxima.info-*.
for what it's worth,
robert dodier