MaplePrimes - answers and comments on Question, Filling in a Table

spreadsheets

alec — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:42:53 Z

Probably, it is easier to use spreadsheets for such things instead of tables. Tables, in general, serve for the worksheet layout (as in html), and not for the data.

Alec

Thanks for the very quick

Auliver — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:57:03 Z

Thanks for the very quick reply. Yes, I can do that - use spreadsheets - but it was the presentation look that I was after. In the set book mentioned in the link I gave, it said that all graphs in that book had been created using Maple, and I assumed/hoped that the table (on p.167) had also been created using Maple. I felt that my results , when presented , would look much nicer in tabular format rather than in spreadsheet form. But many thanks for the input.

Maybe this can help you!

lemelinm — Sat, 23 May 2009 21:41:27 Z

Take a look at the user's manual page 262 - Tables and the Classic Worksheet

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In Windows

alec — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:25:33 Z

Theoretically speaking, in Windows one can insert an object into a worksheet (using Insert menu). In particular, if there is a nice table in some Excel (.xls) file, then it can be inserted - and it inserts in the center and looks nice.

Also, there is such a package, ExcelTools, that allows exporting data into an .xls file.

Practically, however, when I tried to produce the table on p. 167 that way, I got a few problems leading to series of both Maple and Excel crashes.

I guess, the manual copying and pasting is the best (if not the only) way to creating such a table in a worksheet.

Alec

SAGE

alec — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:12:48 Z

On the other hand, that would be very easy to do in Sage.

Alec

Thanks Alec and Mario,I

Auliver — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:30:37 Z

Thanks Alec and Mario,

I think I am now getting used to the idea that what I wanted won't happen :( I had hoped that a table would be an object, with an object name and that the cells could be referenced with something like TableName[Row][Col]

I had come across that help page on Table and Classic Worksheet before, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to get Maple input into the cells. I finally figured that out earlier on this morning.

For anyone else reading this, put the cursor into a cell and press Ctrl+M, or Insert>"Maple Input". A Maple input prompt appears in the cell.

I can definately see the advantages of having a Maple input prompt in a cell, but I guess there may still be a bit of copy and paste to do!

I was able to format a table to look exactly like the one on p. 167, and place each list element , from the generated data, in each cell. Then highlight the cells and click on the !-button to execute.

Thanks all.

p.s. in my user manual, Table and Classic Worksheet was on p.258