@rlopez 

Dr. Lopez, first off I want to say thank you for all your work over the years and the production of this book.  I was going to write you personally about this book but I wanted to comment on this question, which I've also had.  Sometimes I convert the Maple text to 2D-math and the computation still works.  Are there situations where it would not?

Like andrewfortune, I too would prefer not having the red text if possible.  I have a hard copy of this book and thought the Maple ebook would have the same formating except the math would be in document blocks and still interactive.  The book is still great but I sacrificed buying the recomended textbook for class for the maple version and sadly, there was no demo and only 3 screenshots to get a feel of how I would be able to use the book and of course I can't return it. All in all, it is a great book but I fear I am not getting out of it what I was hoping for.  Am I missing something? 

Tha's so cool to see that, what seemed at the time, weird new way of approaching systems come back around!   I choose to get MapleSim because of the linear graph aspect and have been trying to find more information on it in general.  Do you know if there is anyway to extract the graph from MapleSim and see it?

@tomleslie 

Thanks for going through the trouble of creating something.  I was oping there was a package for such things but I guess not quite yet.  

I have learned that the right click context menu's combine does not actually combine but using the command works.

I'm unfamiliar with a few of the functions in your procedure ( I don't even know why its called a procedure yet and not a function or program!) but I'm going to read up on them and definitely make use of it!  

My motivation for all this is I'm struggleing with power series representations of differential equations and would like to speed up the manipulating of the series to get more practice in. 

@acer 

Ok, thank you for the references. I was hoping that there would be documentation that went something like:

"If the item click on is in a list, then these loaded packages will add a submenu to the context menu... "(one would be DynamicSystems)

I was just checking if there was a faster way to find out something like that than seeing it (or not seeing it) while reading the help file.

@acer 

I appreciate the detailed answer. I figured it would be too much or too impractical.  My motivation for this question came from when I learned that in addition to loading the DynamicSystems package, the context-sensitive menu would only include the DynamicSystems submenu if the object clicked was in a list. 

Is there a way to find out the conditions in which some of the menu items change besides reading the individual helps files? Not an all inclusive list but just basic things like how different menus pop up for expressions set to 0 or not.  

@Markiyan Hirnyk 

Thanks for the response.  I just thought it would help knowing whats possible in Maple.  I was trying to avoid pre-reading the help menu before I do anything. 

@Doug Meade 

Thanks Doug, that helps alot.  I just didnt want to have to go that route if, by using some package, Maple can sense that possibility of simplification through the context menu.  

Hi, have you had any luck? I've been working on simplifying the generated equations myself with little luck.  I'm trying to avoid using only custom components with less variables.