Hello,
I wrote a tutorial in Italian on Maxima, it's here
http://poincare.unile.it/vitolo/vitolo_files/didattica/programmi/intro_maxima.zip
it is part of a more general page on LaTeX, Octave and Maxima here (in
Italian):
http://poincare.unile.it/vitolo/progmat.shtml
I released the tutorial under the GPL, and it is available with its LaTeX
source code. Of course, it is a preliminary version, and I hope to improve it
in the future, because I'd like to use it to introduce students to symbolic
computation, both in last years of high school and in first years of university
and/or college. Any suggestion is welcome!
*If* you think that my document is suitable someone may wish to put a link on
the maxima website.
While I was writing the tutorial I used Emaxima, and I had the following
problem: on passing a long list of options to gnuplot Emaxima hung when parsing
the instruction, probably due to the ; between options. An example:
plot2d(f(x),[x,-5,5],[gnuplot_preamble,"set xzeroaxis;set yzeroaxis"]);
with any f. Of course, the command worked in xmaxima. Any suggestion?
Bye, raf.
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Raffaele Vitolo, Dipartimento di Matematica 'E. De Giorgi'
Universita' di Lecce, via per Arnesano 73100 Lecce ITALY
tel.: +39 0832 297425 (office) fax.: +39 0832 297594
home page: http://poincare.unile.it/vitolo