Your proposal makes much more sense, I have rarely seen a Reference
Manual on anything printed in the last 10 years ...
Paulo Ney
Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
> Aside from killing flies and spiders, I don't think a printed manual
> of nearly 900 pages, most filled with console output, is of much use.
> I would much rather see a really good introductory book on Maxima
> being written, along the lines of "The Maxima Book" but written from
> scratch to take into account current versions of the software. I also
> think such a book would be very warmly received.
>
> If this was to become a team effort, I would be happy to be involved.
>
> -Alasdair
>
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Paulo Ney de Souza
> <desouza at math.berkeley.edu <mailto:desouza at math.berkeley.edu>> wrote:
>
> Thanks very much for the clarification, it is very reassuring to know
> that it is not the "Maxima Book" that is being printed!
>
> Paulo Ney de Souza
>
> Jaime Villate wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 14:05 -0600, Robert Dodier wrote:
> >
> >> I'm not involved in the publishing effort so I don't know for sure,
> >> so would someone clarify what, exactly, is to be printed?
> >>
> >> And if it is not "The Maxima Book" can we please choose a
> >> different title to avoid confusion?
> >>
> >
> > The book that were are talking about is the "Maxima Manual",
> which is
> > in: http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/en/maxima-5_15.pdf
> > Its current title is "Maxima Manual".
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jaime Villate
> >
> >
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