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I think Maxima will do a better job !
However, we have a maple licence in my university, so i have tried it,
but i think that maple or mathematica are too too expensive for
educational purposes.

Best regards

> On Sat, 18 May 2002, Gosse Michel wrote:
> > When i launch a maple session in texmacs, i have only the promt
> > maple]
> > but nothing else
> > it seems that maple is not starting with the tm file..
>
> Maple is not supported either yet. Christian Even has written
> a tentative interface which depends on an obscure and undocumented
> feature of Maple which is only present in Maple 7 and higher.
> In order to try his interface, you should compile TeXmacs
> yourself and also do a 'make EXPERIMENTAL'.
>
> In fact, it would be nice if someone could take a few days
> to write a better interface, which also works with older versions
> of Maple (the new license system in Maple 7 is particularly
> violent and unfriendly and it is highly recommended not to
> buy such software).
>
> In order to write a better Maple interface, we recommend
> to determine the central routines which are responsible
> for output (normal output, errors, other messages) and
> to substitute them with new routines which directly
> generate appropriate LaTeX which can be fed in to TeXmacs.
> In order to generate LaTeX, we also recommend *not* to use
> the standard Maple routines, but to write something better;
> this would make it possible to cut and paste Maple output
> to other computer algebra systems. Also, it would be
> an opportunity to improve the ouput, for instance by
> outputting polynomials with the terms being ordered on degree...
>
>
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> Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
> http://www.texmacs.org: GNU TeXmacs scientific text editor
> http://www.math.u-psud.fr/~vdhoeven: personal homepage
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• maple session, Gosse Michel, 05/18/2002
  • Re: maple session, Joris van der Hoeven, 05/18/2002
    • Re: maple session, Gosse Michel, 05/19/2002

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