Plotting and $-syntax ("dont show")



On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Krzysztof Le?niak
<much at mat.uni.torun.pl> wrote:
> Dear Community!
>  First of all I would like to thank for the prompt and fruitfull feedback
>  on my previous question concerned with plotting list-of-lines. I've
>  decided to ask another ,,naive question" about the graphics facility :)
>
>  When I load .wxm file the calculations for commands ended with dollar
>  ($) sign do not show up. It seams to me that plotting might be treated
>  as calculation (from the user, not only computer, perspective).
>  Therefore I don't understand why, no matter how ends the plot2d command,
>  whether with ";" or "$", there always performs the plotting action at
>  the start of saved session.
>
>  It is slightly disturbing, especially when you have prepared a few plots
>  and you want students to play with such prepared ,,worksheet" or even
>  you want to slightly extend your worksheet. I know that one can for
>  example plug the .wxm file into simple text editor, but  it is not
>  convenient (and forbidden). Perhaps  I missed some point.

Loading a wxm file into wxMaxima is the same as loading it into maxima
using the batch command - that is all input is executed, even the
commands which end with $. If you wish to only read the file without
executing it, select Read file from the File menu. You will then need
to manually execute each input.

HTH,

-- 
Andrej