Multiple plots: oddities (bugs?), missing features in Xmaxima and wxMaxima


Thanks, Panagiotis...See below:

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From: Panagiotis Papasotiriou <p.j.papasot at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Maxima] Multiple plots: oddities (bugs?), missing features in Xmaxima and wxMaxima


You can get multiple plots in wxMaxima. For example,
for i:1 thru 2 do wxplot2d(sin(i*x),[x,0,6]);
will return two plots in separate output cells. Not sure if ot is exactly what you want, but it's close, at least.

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Indeed. I was referring to plot2d, which put the plot in a separate gnuplot window, but apparently only one can be opened at a given time, and each plot over-writes the previous one, so one can only see the final plot. But, yes, wxplot2d might work for certain uses.
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In Maxima itself (not wxMaxima) you can save your plots to separate eps files with a code similar to your workaround, just a bit simpler.?
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Yes, fine, it is a bit simpler. Thanks.
>As for matlab, in certain fields, particularly in engineering, it is a defacto standard (unfortunately). Avoiding matlab for serious research work may be possible, but it limits considerably collaboration possibilities, and reuse (I would prefer python numerical tools myself). And certain?specialised?matlab "toolboxes" may have no open-source equivalent. Although matlab started as a purely numerical tool ("MATrix LAB") it has for many years provided significant symbolic capabilities ?through?a "toolbox" currently based on MuPad, which was purchased by matlab.?
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>>Anyhow, I hope some of the other issues mentioned will be addressed at some point.
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>>Best,
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>>Virgil