Glad that 2026 has been released now, and I will certainly use it as the default version in the future.

While there are a lot of new features, one thing that keeps annoying me is the inferior font quality, compared to other software.

Here's a screenshot of 4 different programs, all with font Arial 11pt and 100% zoom factor. Font AntiAliasing is set to enabled in Maple.

Judge it for yourself, but in my opinion it gives a clear picture that Maple is much worse to read than any of the other software packages (Word, LibreOffice, pdfXChange).

I've modified the geometry:-intersection example from the help file to show an error which I am struggling to understand.

Why does a redefinition of a geometry object throw an error?

Test_intersection.mw

There seems to be a bug in the round function when using units.

Download round.mw

I've been using the $include statement when using code written in Visual Basic Editor for packages quite extensively, and this works very nice.

Would it be possible to outsource code to external files for code not in packages / libraries as well? If yes, how would this be done?

I need to take up an issue which is quite old, but still unsolved.

https://www.mapleprimes.com/questions/234249-Text-Quality-On-Screen

The problem is that in specific display configurations with one (rotated) vertical screen and multiple horizontal screens, the quality of fonts especially is significantly lower in Maple as with a configuration with just horizontal screens.

The affect is visible in Maple when it is on the horizontal (unrotated) screens.

Here are screenshots for comparision, and the layout of my desktop.

Screen layout:

Screenshot rotated

Screenshot unrotated

It seems that the problem is present when starting Maple. Changing the rotation of the screen when Maple is running does not affect the font quality in Maple.

Other (Windows) programs are not affected at all of this changes, so this seems to be a Java issue.