A number of you have brought up, in this and earlier threads, problems related to implicit multiplication. I'd like to mention that we are indeed aware of these weaknesses and bugs and we are investigating long-term solutions. As Jacques suggests, there are some fundamental issues we need to examine, so it may take some time to complete the improvements. I just wanted to reassure everyone that we are taking these problems seriously and are working on making 2-d math more usable.

Also, to clarify some points that have been raised here: there are two parsers in Maple, one for 1-d math and one for 2-d math. Generally, documents don't contain execution groups and input is in 2-d math, while worksheets have execution groups in which it is easy to switch between 1-d math and 2-d math input. The same 2-d parser in used in both cases. There shouldn't be differences in the results if the same command is issued in a Document and in a Worksheet.

Paulina Chin
Maplesoft

Sorry, I missed seeing that BoxPlot has its own 'captions' option. I'll enter this bug into our database.

Paulina

Sorry, I missed seeing that BoxPlot has its own 'captions' option. I'll enter this bug into our database.

Paulina

The option name is 'caption', without the trailing 's', because only one is allowed per plot.

Paulina

The option name is 'caption', without the trailing 's', because only one is allowed per plot.

Paulina

The caption option seems to work OK for me with the BoxPlot command. I just tested with Maple 13 and Windows XP. Can you provide the exact command and version of Maple you used? Thanks.

Paulina

The caption option seems to work OK for me with the BoxPlot command. I just tested with Maple 13 and Windows XP. Can you provide the exact command and version of Maple you used? Thanks.

Paulina

Patrick, thanks for pointing out the tickmarks/thickness problem. Indeed, this did work in Maple 11 but is now broken in Maple 13. I'll make sure this problem is added to our bugs database, if it isn't there already, and it will be addressed in a future release. I'm afraid I can't think of a different workaround you can use for the Classic GUI, except for what Alejandro had already suggested.

Paulina

Patrick, thanks for pointing out the tickmarks/thickness problem. Indeed, this did work in Maple 11 but is now broken in Maple 13. I'll make sure this problem is added to our bugs database, if it isn't there already, and it will be addressed in a future release. I'm afraid I can't think of a different workaround you can use for the Classic GUI, except for what Alejandro had already suggested.

Paulina

Don't worry about the accidental flagging, Magdalena. I'm sure the admins won't disable my account as a result. :-)  In any case, thanks for the comments. I'm glad you found the post helpful.

Paulina

Don't worry about the accidental flagging, Magdalena. I'm sure the admins won't disable my account as a result. :-)  In any case, thanks for the comments. I'm glad you found the post helpful.

Paulina

You can draw many of the objects available in the geometry and geom3d packages using plottools. If you replace the geometry[triangle] call with the following:
> b := polygon([[0,0],[0,4],[7,0]], thickness=4, color=red, style=line):
and add the scaling=constrained option to the plots[display] call, then you don't need to use the geometry package at all.

Paulina Chin
Maplesoft

Try the DensityPlot command in the Statistics package.

Paulina Chin
Maplesoft

Congratulations, Doug. The honour is well deserved, and I look forward to your visit to Maplesoft.

Paulina

Yes, indeed there is a bug with processing lists of HUE colours. Thanks for spotting this. I've added the report to our bugs database and we plan to get it fixed for a future release.

Paulina Chin
Maplesoft