Could someone look at the xmaxima "getting started" page?
It's not especially clear, has some factual errors, and some grammatical
errors in the first few sentences.
It now says:
You may double click the above formula, and the integral will be substituted
into the Maxima evaluation in the other window. There are examples which you
may also look at 3d plotting If you wish to have your plots appear in a
separate window, go to the preferences button under file, and select
separate. You may also go to the netmath page to see some more
capabilities.
Probably it should be changed to say something like this:
You may double click the above formula, and the integral will be substituted
into the Maxima evaluation in the other window. There are examples which you
may also look at.
New users are often interested in 3d plotting. If you wish to have your
plots appear in a separate window, go to the preferences button under
Options, and select separate.
You may also go to the Maxima home page (go to the help button) for
additional information.
............
Actually, the whole first section could be made more coherent. Personally,
I am guess about the plot3d business being of interest. I hardly ever use
it myself.
Also, a pointer to wxmaxima might be appropriate.
RJF
> -----Original Message-----
> From: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu
> [mailto:maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of David Bremner
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:00 AM
> To: Raymond Toy (RT/EUS)
> Cc: maxima at math.utexas.edu
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] Autoconf version?
>
> Raymond Toy (RT/EUS) wrote:
>
> >I wasn't seriously suggesting that we do that. (But 5000 lines is
> >better than the 41000 line file for xemacs, that is checked in.)
>
> >But this does make maxima different from most other software
> that uses
> >configure. All other software that I've used includes
> configure, so I
> >don't have to run autoconf on it.
>
> As far as I know, the usual arrangment is to include configure in
> distributed tarballs, but not to store it in version control.
>
> David
>
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