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Posted on 2008-03-09 08:52 By John Fredsted (Maple Rating 4 566)
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Could someone at MapleSoft please tell me how to make the output of something like

table[table[1,2],table[3,4]];

format nicely under the maple-tag? It is, of course, conceivable that it is just me having fundamentally misunderstood the (new?) syntax of the maple-tag. Also, it is conceivable that the Maple tag only malfunctions in the preview version of my posts, but I will never know because as long as it fails there, I will not hit the submit button.

But if none of these possibilities is the case, then could the resolvement of this presumably malfunctioning maple-tag please soon attain some reasonable priority? Of course, I accept that it can be hard to solve for some technical reasons, but only so if I am being kept informed about the efforts undertaken.

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an approximation

Comment on 2008-03-09 12:40 from jakubi (Maple Rating 4 911)

table[]; ``[table[1,2]]; ``[table[3,4]];

Code:

<maple> table[]; </maple> <maple>``[table[1,2]];</maple>   <maple>``[table[3,4]];</maple>

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Ingenuity

Comment on 2008-03-09 13:41 from John Fredsted (Maple Rating 4 566)

Thanks for that ingenious way of making a (seemingly) correctly looking image. How on God's green Earth did you arrive at that expression? By divine intervention, or by brute force trial and error?

However, and sorry for that, it does not satisfy me, because such efforts should of course not be needed. Instead MapleSoft need to do something seriously about this malfunctioning tag.

PS: Congratulations on your golden leaf.

How

Comment on 2008-03-09 15:54 from jakubi (Maple Rating 4 911)

A bit of testing and a bit of intuition.

You said elsewhere that you use a dictionary, etc, for English. I do not know what the expression "on God's green Earth" means. What have you found for it? Or, do you have a pointer to a good online "dictionary" of English expressions?

Certainly, it is important that this failures to produce math images be corrected as soon as possible. Note also that I have not got make it work with the comma yet.

This leaf is dedicated to the Mapleprimes team. Had the site worked better, I would not have got it.

 

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God's green Earth

Comment on 2008-03-10 03:59 from John Fredsted (Maple Rating 4 566)

I think I have heard the expression once somewhere, maybe on television. I do not think it readily figures in some dictionary (by the way, nice memory of yours, remembering that I use dictionaries). But I can find "how on Earth" in my dictionary. If I am unsure about the spelling or use of some word or phrase I may also Google it. Try to Google the exact phrase "on gods green earth".

Concerning the maple-tag: I did not even notice the missing comma, sleepy me! Yesterday evening after having shut down my computer I suddenly realized that your approach ought to produce several images, something I did not think about previously, sleepy me, again. And sure enough, your approach does produce several images, having just checked that. That can hardly be the way that MapleSoft had envisioned us using the maple-tag, or what (asking MapleSoft, not you)?

google answers

Comment on 2008-03-10 13:40 from jakubi (Maple Rating 4 911)

to the exact phrase "on gods green earth" are not quite useful as I get 24.100 results. Clearly it is a common phrase in English. So common and obvious, apparently, for native English speakers that it is not so easy to find an explanation out of so many pages where it is just used.

That is why, I think, a good online "dictionary" of English phrases would be very useful for me in this case. May be that I should ask at a forum on the English language...

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I know

Comment on 2008-03-10 14:05 from John Fredsted (Maple Rating 4 566)

While writing my previous post I struggled to find some way of describing that phrase, but could not readily find some. But I believe, at least I use it that way, that it can be used when feeling baffled as to how something has happened or has been achieved. Maybe some natively speaking users can help us foreigners out here.

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