What single change in Maple would you want more than any other?

Maybe it's an enhancement, or a functionality change, or a bug fix.

Maple gives different error messages to the same input depending on whether the input is done with Maple notation or 2D Math Input.

My example is to enter the following erroneous input in both Maple notation and 1D math notation:

plot( sin(x, x=0..1 );

Clearly this is missing a right parenthesis after the first x.

Here is how this section of my worksheet copies into MaplePrimes:

Maple's Standard GUI has context-sensitive menus. Those are the menus that appear when one right-clicks on a output (or input, in a Dcoument).

Those context-menus can be customized.

Below is an example which adds a new submenu. The new submenu is populated automatically according to the types of thing found within the object itself.

It's an alternative to a menu-item that already exists, which shows up as "Help on Command". But that existing item only...

Maple 12, Mac OS 10.5 see "invalid character ..." messages! . . How about other platforms?

The pair of (desktop icon) image files Maple12Classic.png and Maple12.png could more sensibly be installed in some location such as the $MAPLE/etc directory.

Having them get installed, as in Maple 12, to $MAPLE/bin is a little strange.

The usual use of bin directories is for executables, and not binaries in general. Eg. some other binary objects such as shared object libraries may be in lib/, and text shell-scripts may also be in bin/. So the fact thet .png files are "binary" isn't any good reason to place them in bin/.

acer

It would be nicer if the nprofile commandline utility had its own script in $MAPLE/bin similar to the maple and xmaple scripts.

That is the place that one usually either looks for Maple executables or appends to one's PATH. A single location makes more sense and is easier.

It would also be nicer if nprofile help-page mentioned something like the exprofile help-page's comment that, "The preferred method for creating the output  file is with writeto() and/or appendto()."

Sometimes I have to write a Maple code compatible to several versions of Maple (typically 9.5 and 10 but sometimes also 11 or VR4) and I am missing a information in Maple help pages - a changelog or, more specifically, a version information. At least, for every particular fuction or package, I am missing the information since which version of Maple it exists (eventually since which version it is obsolete).

I suggest adding descriptions of variable, size, and factors() to the GF help page. Currently, they are not even mentioned there.

Alec

I suggest using spell checker on the help pages.

For example, such thing as

Other commands, such as MTM[vertcat], offer new functionality: vercat provides an easy way to combine arrays.

with both vercat and vertcat in the same sentence in the ?MTM help page should be easily caught.

Alec

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