Hi,
I decided to try to embed some plots in xmaxima so that I could
easily make comments about them above and below in the tk window.
This would give functionality similar to Mathematica Notebooks.
Here are some suggestions for future versions.
1. It would be nice to choose the size of the canvas in xmaxima, so
one could make the canvas small or large. This way one could place
plots side by side.
Since one can already zoom in the openmath
plots, this would allow interactive viewing of several parts of
plots on the same screen.
Also, if one could arrange to have plots removed and replotted on
the same canvas, animation would be possible.
2. I can scroll up in the workspace line by line, but scrolling down
seems to jump. So, it is cumbersome to make comments about a plot
below it. One has to keep paging up and down.
3. There is a command in gnuplot which allows the printing of
coordinates of points on the plot selected by the mouse.
This is using the commands
set print "coord.out"
print MOUSE_X, MOUSE_Y
Each subsequent mouse click has its coords stored in the file
"coord.out"
It would be nice to have an option to collect this data in a file
with the plotting routines in maxima.
-sen
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