Why not create a bug forum on here?

Maplesoft might automate a process to add a comment to posts made in such a forum, whenever the status of the bug was changed (in whichever internal database is used to manage bugs).

I have long suspected that software users do not usually submit their bugs, and that they could do with some encouragement.

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Using Safari (browser on Mac), when I click "Post new forum topic" I get this... Click to see the image... The text box where the text should be entered is too far to the right, partly covered by other stuff... Slightly inconvenient for typing a message there.

Quite a few of the polls on mapleprimes ask the reader a question whose answer describes something about themselves or their behaviour.

It would be refreshing to see more polls which ask the reader to give an opinion. Such an opinion, or question, might relate to future aspects of Maple.

One of the few prior polls like this was about where Maplesoft ought to devote its focus (graphics, algorithmic development, document preparation etc).

It would be nice to see more polls like that. The question could be simple and all on one narrow topic, such as the default value for Heaviside(0). Or the question could involve many areas, asking which one of 6-10 or so more specific areas for improvement would be best for maple (eg, Std GUI code editor, full IDE, more use of parallel kernel, etc, etc).

I have a question regarding privacy with respect to uploaded files on mapleprimes. It has to deal with where public worksheets are downloaded from. I upload all of my worksheets as public files to ensure the quickest and greatest amount of help to my requests. However, my question is when those public worksheets are downloaded are they actually downloaded from the actual creator's machine (e.g. C: mydocuments...etc), or from somewhere else ? hope that question came across clear. v/r,

To listen to my own advice, here is a use case: I use 'recent posts' navigation a lot (thanks). Sometimes I read a post to which I want to reply, but I don't have the time to do that right now, but when I do have the time, I have forgotten which post that was. Actually, I can think of 3-4 such posts right now... So I would like to be able to 'mark' a post, so that I can come back to it later. Sure, I could use my browser's bookmarks to do that, but they are already a mess as it is. I think it would make more sense to keep mapleprimes-specific things in/on mapleprimes.

Has it ever been considered to have some sort of Maple specific publication in connection with mapleprimes ? Some sort of refereed or peer reviewed publication available to the public or mapleprimes/maplesoft, that members of either of these entities can publish to. Even if it's only available online. was just wondering. v/r,

My last post that I typed in the how do I with maple forum, was cut off after I posted it. can someone take a look at this ? Tedious typing the samething more than once. I'm also having a problem again with the misalignment of the text box for replies to postings. It gets shifted far to the right of the screen. v/r,

I did not see an official policy about asking homework questions on MaplePrimes (at least a search for 'homework' did not turn up anything relevant). A number of other sites and mailing lists which I am on have such policies. A particularly like the policy from the Haskell-cafe list. It strikes an excellent middle-ground between being helpful and active participation in academic dishonesty.

what about connections between mapleprimes and comp.soft-sys.math.maple ? is it possible to build a "bridge" bewteen them? for instance a "forum" in mapleprimes which will recieve all comp.soft-sys.math.maple posts, or a link to open it into the mapleprimes central frame. we could use the google interface? it will be easier to have only one place to concentrate all informations about maple... comp.soft-sys.math.maple

The left hand navigation bar calls it High Performance Maple Programming Techniques but the book itself is (now) called Tools of the Maple Masters.

It took me forever to find which tags were allowed. Why? because, silly me, I searched for it. And there is no page that has that information on it. Or, to be more precise, pretty much every page has that information in it, in the JavaScript region at the bottom of the input box. It is also interesting to note that the tags listed there do not include 'blockquote', and yet the toolbar does.

In my latest blog post, I used both the cite tag and the blockquote tag, to see if they did anything different. They do not. Worse, neither does what they are supposed to do, which is to indent what I post, so that it stands out. Why? Another issue seems to be that, according to the W3C, you can't have raw text in a blockquote, you are suppose to have enclosing tags (like 'p' for example), otherwise what you get isn't valid. So why does the button generate known invalid html? It's one thing for Microsoft to flaunt standards, but...

Staff, Will you put an index, in a screen tip, on the forum and blogs buttons? Each screen tip could have links to the most recent 30 posts and one link to all past 30th place. marvinrayburns.com
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Can we have a format for posting with

- text only
- fixed font
- full ASCII


When posting code it is a real mess in variable fonts, almost unreadable
and quite often it must contain symbols ( like the 'less than') which is
kicked out by the board software - so HTML with the 'pre' command does
not work.

Or let us know how to do it in a posting FAQ ...

I would like a button attached to comments to report posts as spam. To make this useful (as opposed to unproductive) you would need a program to construct a daily list of all spam posts, so that the moderators are not inundated with spam reports (thereby producing more spam).