I have been using Scientific Notebook to create documents with lots of mixed media. Examples include hyperlinks to Web Sites, audio files that bring up my audio player. avi files that show the video I have made, Vpython files that execute in place (I have lots of Vpython simulations and can execute them within Scientific Notebook).
In other words, I can import pictures and hyperlink to any file and have the proper software to execute.
This way I can temporally pass control to anything from within my Scientific Notebook.

Now that I have Maple 10 I would like to use it instead of Scientific Notebook ( create documents containing the above abilities) but without the above abilities in Maple 10 I will have to do the reverse:

I remembered another request I have for Maple. Something that was available in the past for Maple under Mac OS. But not now. (So I have it set up with QuicKeys to do what I want.)

We now have return and shift-return to do two different things. I'd like to be able to switch these, or to let enter do one of them independent of which return does.

u3d became a popular format for 3D graphics and with Adobe Acrobat/Reader 7.07 embracing it
(sorry, everybody but MacOS/Windows users seem to be left on cold now) it seems to be great
for electronic publishing (look at first few links from http://www.microtype.com/homenewupdated.html)

Unfortunately so far only CAD and Framemaker seem to have u3d export.

My suggestion: provide u3d export for Maple 3D graphics

It seems that it is impossible to put on a plot a text wich would include Greek letters, for instance sin(alpha), where "alpha" is a Greek alpha. For instance, demonstarting a solution of the pendulum problem I would like to show the angle alpha by which the pendulum is offset from equilibrum and the component of the gravitational force which pushes it back to equilibrium - m g sin(alpha). Andrzej Pindor University of Toronto

MAPLE does not have the capability of plotting nice (say, round) FILLED IN points, and "hollow" points are very often hard to distinguish in a window cluttered with graphs. I pointed this out to the Maple Support Team, and the following roundabout was suggested: > with(plottools): > c := disk([9,1.5], .2, color=black): > > d := disk([2,2.8], .2, color=black): > > display([c,d],scaling=constrained,view=[-10..10,-10..10]); > display(p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6,c, d, scaling=constrained,view=[-1..10,0..10]); > display(p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6,c, d,view=[-1..10,0..4]); However, the BIG inconvenient of this roundabout is that in reality it plots little circles. So, if the scales in both axes is strongly different (think of plotting monthly salaries, in dollars, against time, in months) you don't get round points, but very flat ellipses.

It would be really nice if Maple would include PDF support in the future. More and more people are producing content directly in PDF (with pdflatex for example) rather than PS. PS isn't even directly supported on the Mac directly; it is always converted to PDF before it is displayed. Most printers can process and print a PDF file directly. Does anybody else wish Maple could produce PDF?

Maplesoft should have free recorded webinars available for customers, as The Mathworks does. The main problem people have with Maplesoft products is the lack of training. With recorded webinars you can get a general idea of how to use Maple to solve your engineering problems.

I'd really like better linear algebra support. I've been wanting some features that have been in Mathematica now for several years. I'd really like to be able to write out, c^T*B*c where c is a vector and B is a matrix without having to specify their size other than they are conforming. Then be able to manipulations on them such as differentiate with respect to c. I know that Mathematica can do this, and the lack of this support makes doing my work difficult. I had to do a lot of work to get around this problem when creating my symbolic finite element package. The other major thing that I've complained about before including in various places on Mapleprimes (but not in the suggestions forum) is better LaTeX export.

There is one thing which, as far as I know (please correct me if I'm wrong), you can do with other languages like FORM and MATHEMATICA, but cannot do with MAPLE. That is, to use patterns in replacement rules. If this were included in a future version of MAPLE, I wouldn't use MATHEMATICA ever again! For example, in MATHEMATICA you can write the following input: f[{a,b}] + f[c] /. f[{x_,y_}] -> p[x+y] and then you get the following output: f[c]+p[a+b] Another example, {1,x,x^2,x^3} /. x^n_ -> r[n] then you get {1,x,r[2],r[3]} The underscores are used to mean "any expression". For example, x_ means any expression to be named x. MATHEMATICA also has things like x__ (x with two underscores), which means any sequence to be named x, and x___ (three underscores) which means any sequence of zero or more expressions to be named x.

I think Maple should have compression in the .mw format. I don't care if it breaks backwards compatibility, it should be an option. Later you can make it the default. I recently looked at this post, which links to an 11MB worksheet. Using "zip" compressed it down to 60KB. This is beyond bad - it's obscene! Note that this would also fix the problem of broken mail servers corrupting .mw attachments. Just swipe some FreeBSD code and put this feature in. Please!

One might expect to find all curve fitting tools in the Curve Fitting Package, but some are in the Optimization or Statistics Packages. Would it be possible to bring them all together?

J. Tarr

Most experienced Maple users have encountered situations where the "do" and "end" statements are not in the same execution group. For example:

> for n from 1 to 10 do
>   n, n^2, 1/n;
>
Warning, premature end of input, use <Shift> + <Enter> to avoid this message.

> end do;       # in a separate execution group
Error, reserved word `end` unexpected

I have no objection to the issuing of a warning message when the "do" is executed without a matching "end". My request is that the unmatched "end" (particularly when it appears as the initial (non-empty) string in an execution group) should receive a warning instead of an error.

I would like to see Maple's modp1 and modp2 support 25-bit moduli using the float[8] datatype, similar to the LinearAlgebra:-Modular package.

I think an excellent feature for Maple would be an auto-complete function similar to what they have in software integrated development environments like MS Visual Studio, i.e., when you begin typing a command, a small window pops up and displays the possible command completions, parameter list etc. This would be easier than typing Command-Shift-Space to complete commands, and if the parameter list and a small instruction could be included in the pop-up window, I think this would save loads of time, as it seems I spend half my time in the help browser looking up function calling sequences that I have forgotten.

Maple needs better user-level facilities for doing linear algebra over finite fields, particularly the integers mod n. For example there is no good way to solve a linear system Ax=B when B is a matrix. Obviously the LinearAlgebra:-Modular package is very good at what it does. Why can't there be some nice non-programmer routines which call it ? One alternative to using the mod operator is to have all the commands in the main LinearAlgebra package accept an optional last argument for the characteristic. For example: LinearAlgebra:-GaussianElimination(A, n); Then in the GaussianElimination command you could do something like: