I occasionally find myself inexplicably in a region of my worksheet that does not respond to my editing, fe.g., I cannot erae or I cannot copy. I recently typed a command-there was an error of some form and I tried unsuccessfully to edit it. Then I tried to copy the code and enter it at a prompt. It refused to enter it at the prompt but copied it below the prompt in a strnge region that I do not understand. When I retyped the command at a prompt it worked fine. I do not understand th dead regions that pop up mysteriously. (I am using Maple 2024 on a Mac) The page is too long to copy but I could upload it if given directions.

I am very frustrated with the geometry package.
I wanted to draw a circle thru 3 points and so I opened the geometry package help pages.
> restart;
> with(geometry);
> with(plots);

Here is the example given there
> circle(c1, [point(A, 0, 0), point(B, 2, 0), point(C, 1, 2)], 'centername' = O1)

As you can see the command uses the point command from the geometry package which is

> point(C, 1, 2)

Maple consistently uses := as the assignment operator. Not with this command. One would expect the syntax to be

>C:=point([-1. 2]);

or some such but no, that is not how it works.Notice that I am not alone in my opinion about this being a violation of standard Maple syntax; the Maple parser AGREES with me

> type(point(C,1,-3),point);
                             false

Perhaps I am just being grouchy but pointplot works fine with
> pointplot([[1, 3],[1.7, 2],[-1, 7]])

But
> pointplot([P1,P2,P3]);
Error, (in plots:-pointplot) number of elements in list must be a multiple of 2

Oh well, let’s see what we get with our circle construction
>display(c1);

Error, (in plots:-display) expecting plot structure but received: c1

Bad guess on my part.

> radius (c1)
yields the correct number and
> center(c1)
yields the name of the circle but
>coordinates(center_c1);
yields what I want. Peculiar but OK , let's go on.
I can write the equation of the circle now that I have the center and radius but hopefully I try

>  equation(c1); and get an error message!!!

The commands center, radius work but equation does not! Here is what works
> Equation(c1)

If one really wants to CONFUSE the user why not eQuaTiOn? Who would guess that? (Sorry to be sarcastic but …) At least with the equation and implicit plot one can finally get a plot of the circle. Is that CLUMSY?

Hi,

I am using Maple 2023 on a Mac. When I issue the following commands

with(plots);
for j to 10 do
    pl || j := plot(sin(j*x)^j, x = 0 .. 5);
end do;
display([pl || (1 .. 10)], insequence = true);

I used to get an animation but also some controls: I could easily repeat, reverse, change FPS, etc. Now I seem to have to go Format_>Plot->Animate->Play. Has there been a change in Maple or have set some preference to this awkward form? I admit I have not been using Maple a lot these last couple of years.

S := [1, 2];
                          S := [1, 2]

T := [1, 2];
                          T := [1, 2]

is(S = T);
                              true

Sv := Vector([1, 2]);
                              

Tv := Vector([1, 2]);
                              

is(Sv = Tv);
                             false

is(convert(Sv, list) = convert(Tv, list));
                              true

I have a document with quite a few symbols saved to my favorites palette. When I close the file and then reopoen it the Favorites Palette has not changed-the symbols are right where I want them. However, if I open the file with another computer the Favorites Palette is empty! What is happening?  (The document is stored in Dropbox and both computers are Macs running Maple 2023.)