Product Suggestions

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1) I would like to see the possbility of color-coding the assumed variables (insteas of the ~ postfix or a text). Expressions with a lot of ~ are soon illegible, and anyway cannot be easily published. Color seems an obvious possibility.

2) I would also like to see an "execute worksheet up to cursor" option. This would be useful to test modifications of long worksheets, where performing a manual selection is cumbersome. Such an option is common in debuggers, for instance.

While trying to learn how to use styles, I observed puzzling behavior in two ways: styles were changing that I had not changed, and images seemed to be moved around in table cells. I created this document so that I could see how each style worked, and, to my surprise, found that the Normal style affected other styles in an unpredictable fashion.

I like the way styles are handled in Maple and how easy they are to apply to other docs. I have created a default style doc that has all the styles listed by name and formatted by the name of the style. That way, I can see what the style looks like, and it is easy to apply a given style to a new document.

Style listbox is not sorted by alpha, so the new user must go strolling around looking for the desired style.

Can't find information about the User Dictionary in Help. Finally found a reference for Maple 8 on the web, and it got me to the correct place in Maple 12.

If it's there, perhaps we need a better link to it; if not, perhaps it could be added...

~R~

Not talking about giving wrong answer (as, for example, in A110375 thread), many Maple comands are amazingly inefficient. For example, SearchAll from ListTools pakage,

time(ListTools:-SearchAll(2,['$1..1000'$1000]));

                                33.977

Compare it, say, with the following obvious way of doing that:

I'd like to see the following examples in the help page for sqrt,

sqrt(149^3);

                        149*sqrt(149);

sqrt(151^3);

                        sqrt(3442951);

Alec

If you go the Help in Maple 12 Standard for "page numbers" you find directions to go to Format and look for Page Numbers, but there is no Page Numbers under Format in Maple 12 Standard (there is in Maple 12 Classic).

 

How about making it so that if I copy and paste the following lines from any common word processor (Word, Wordpad, Notepad,etc)

f:=proc(x::list)
local i;
add(i,i=x);
end proc;

into a Standard Maple 12 worksheet I dont get  > at the beginning of every line.

Not that if I copy and paste the lines into Classic I don't get the extra >'s.

When you highlight an equation in Maple and drag it to another program, a word processor for example, a small image of it is produced. It would be great to be able to select the format and resolution of these images. Specifically, it would be nice to be able to choose from jpg, gif, or a pdf clipping, and to choose compression levels and resolution, whether or not to include a background mask (or just the text itself), and how much margin to add to the clipping.

I notice that when I am in Help and select something in quotes, such as "Teal", the editor will select only Teal, not "Teal", when I double-click Teal. This is what I expect.

I need to use plots (I think) because I want to scale the plot image and I can't do that (as far as I know) unless I use a plot component.

BUT, I get a border around the plot. I'd like a borderless plot just like the inline plot.

~Rich~

I believe that the basic language in which the Maplesoft writers

code Maple is Java.  That means that the programmers at Maplesoft

had to have written TONS of Java classes, such as LinearAlgebra,

with lots of methods, such as resultants and determinants.

I would think they would have posted these Java classes into the Java library

Print preview doesn't respond to PageUp and PageDown keys.
It would be nice to control the size of plots w/o using the embedded components.
Plot should accept: nolegend or legend = [] (empty set). Many times I don't want a legend, and I shouldn't have to specify something like "legend = ["", "", "", ""]".
 

~Rich~

Hi,

whenever i want to plot a function without specifying an initial plotting range, for example by rightclicking on an expression and select plot, i get an y-range from 0 to 10^9 or worse. It happens  mostly when  the expression contains poles, for example 1/x^3. A better heuristic would be nice.

 

 

Hi,

 

I would like to suggest that Maplesoft provide a Finite Element Analysis package.

A straightforward well-supported way of setting up these problems would definitely be of value to those who are not experts.

 

Regards.

 

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