Congratulations! I've no idea how many man-hours went into this release,
but on an initial impression it looks very promising indeed. The html help
file is greatly improved! Since I'm currently teaching an elementary
cryptography course I checked out the number theory section, and I'm
delighted to see that this has been beefed up since 5.9.2. I'll look over
more of it during the coming weeks.
A great effort all round.
cheers,
Alasdair
On 9/24/06, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/23/06, Marco Ciampa <ciampix at libero.it> wrote:
>
> > Now is time of the manual. I've contacted a high school professor that
> has
> > the intention of make her students translate the entire manual in
> italian
> > (with some error checking and help) and use this job as a lesson/test
> for
> > this year school program. I'll do the glue that will apply
> > the translations to the source code and create the patches (and commit
> those
> > patches to cvs, if you like to let me do it by myself).
> > I've contacted a university professor for the math consulting.
>
> Marco, this is tremendous. Thanks a lot for organizing this effort.
>
> I will enable developer privileges for you (ciampix at SF) so that you
> can commit files to CVS.
>
> > - in witch format are the help source texts (docbook, latex, ...)
>
> The Maxima documentation is written in Texinfo format.
> >From .texi files we generate .html, .pdf, and .info.
> The interactive help system for command-line Maxima gets
> the text from the .info files.
>
> We will put the Italian translation files into a new directory
> doc/info/it/.
> We'll need to create some Makefile stuff to process those files.
>
> > - witch instrument do you suggest (I already use emacs for everyday
> use..)
> > for writing
>
> Emacs or any plain text editor is OK.
>
> > - witch tools do I need to compile the help file(s)
>
> You need to have a texinfo package installed. I have texinfo-4.8 rpm
> on my desktop box.
>
> The texinfo package supplies makeinfo (.texi --> .info) and texi2dvi
> (.texi --> .pdf).
> Maxima has its own copy of texi2html (.texi --> .html).
>
> I'm sure there will be additional questions, but I'll let that be
> enough for now.
>
> Thanks for your interest in Maxima!
>
> Robert Dodier
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