On some Linux distributions, the default font (Lucida Bright at size 12) for text mode in Maple's Standard GUI doesn't look as good as it might at the default magnification.

Here's a screenshot of Maple 12 and some text in a worksheet (on my very old Fedora Core 2).

Notice how some letters look odd. The "i" and "s" are mismatched, as are the "u" and "c", etc. The screenshot may not do full justice to its ugliness. That is with Maple's option for font antialiasing enabled (though it wasn't improved by disabling the antialiasing -- those letters' sizes were still mismatched).

This is with Lucida Bright, which as I gather is the "recommended" font for a Java application that is intended as cross-platform. That is used at size 12 as Maple's default style for text mode (on Linux).

So I installed the "Microsoft TrueType core fonts", by following the instructions here.

My old Linux FC2 X server can handle TrueType fonts, as I believe  most  modern  Linux distributions can.

Now I get the following look, first with and then without font antialiasing enabled. It is much improved.

I don't know how the default appearance on other, more modern Linux distributions looks. Perhaps the Lucida Bright 12pt font appears more pleasing on new distributions using the stock fonts. Feedback is welcome.

There is a new template for MapleSim that allows you to import your Simulink models into Maple.  Once imported, you can quickly create a custom component that can be used in MapleSim.

Click here for more information:  www.maplesoft.com/applications/app_center_view.aspx

Requires BlockImporter and MATLAB/Simulink, version 2007b or later, to execute.

Mike Kucera and I are happy to announce the availability of MapleMIX, a partial evaluator for Maple. Partial evaluation (PE) is a program transformation technique that uses a subset of the inputs to a program to generate a specialized version of the program that will then accept the rest of the inputs. With PE it is possible to write algorithms in a highly general and abstracted form, and then automatically extract optimized versions of the algorithm specialized for certain inputs.

The following type of difference in behaviour, due to deterministic ordering of sets as introduced in Maple 12, may affect implementations of some algorithms.

    |\^/|     Maple 11 (X86 64 LINUX)
._|\|   |/|_. Copyright (c) Maplesoft, a division of Waterloo Maple Inc. 2007
 \  MAPLE  /  All rights reserved. Maple is a trademark of
 <____ ____>  Waterloo Maple Inc.
      |       Type ? for help.

> seq(x, x in {a,b,c,d,e,f,g}) assuming d>0;
   ...

This is a follow-up to an earlier post about CovarianceMatrix.

There are several ways in which Statistics:-CorrelationMatrix can be improved.

CorrelationMatrix shares some inefficiencies with CovarianceMatrix, by computing correlations between the n columns, pairwise. But in doing so it also computes...

This function

f(x) = { 0,           x = 0
          { 1 - x,      0 < x < = 1

is not continuous on [0, 1].

So I wrote

f := x -> piecewise (x = 0,0,x > 0,1-x);
plot(f,0..1);

But Maple doesn't show the lack of continuity. (discont=true doesn't do anything here). Can I improve the plot?
 

Alla

Why does Maple fail to respond to

solve( {(560/243)*(x+1)^(-13/3)},{x});

I'm an autodidact working with calculus and Maple 9.5,  I find the Maple Learning Guide more illustrative than comprehensive and the help files too oriented toward users who know more math and/or more Maple than I do.  This forum has proved helpful in responding to specific questions, but I'm looking for some books that would provide guidance on the full range of Maple's potential.  I'm not looking for a primer, but rather something as comprehensive as the help files that makes fewer assumptions about the reader's knowledge and is written

Would someone please give me the correct syntax for finding extrema on a closed interval for

f(x) = 3x^4 - 4x^3  on the interval [-1, 2]

that would include the left & right endpoints should one of those be the maximum or minimum.

Alla

How would you graph the eight curve in Maple?

x^4 = a^2 (x^2 - y^2)

Alla

In a previous post I described how to call OpenMaple from a C# application (see: Using OpenMaple with C#) Now, I'd like to tackle the reverse problem: how do I call a C# .dll from within Maple? The way to do this involves using Component Object Model (COM) interoperability in the Microsoft .NET Framework. Because Maple's kernel is written in an "unmanaged" language, a wrapper is needed in order to bridge to your managed C# code. This article will outline the steps needed to create this bridge and get Maple talking to C#.

Some years ago, before the advent of the Statistics package, a colleague asked for a fast way to generate thousands of normally distributed random numbers in Maple. The suggestion that worked quickest and most easily (using existing, simple Maple Library routines) was to generate random deviates using the usual formula associated with the distribution. But the key was to replace the scalar values (representing the uniformly distributed input) with a whole Matrix of input values....

I wanted to see how difficult it would be to use the OpenMaple API from a C# program.  It turns out that it is pretty easy to access C .dlls from C#.  I was able to reproduce a commandline equivalent (minus the command history and editing features). 

The source code can be found here: openmaple.cs

  restart; Digits:=14;     # using Maple 12.02
  J:=Int(arctan(z)^2/(1+4*z^2),z=0..infinity);


  evalf(J);
                           0.40325004753375

  value(J); evalf(%); Re(%);

                ...

Following the midi crash course written by Daniel White, and using a table of midi note numbers, it is rather easy to write a Maple procedure producing midi files. Here is an example that I posted in Simple Sounds thread, slightly modified by adding an instrument as a 3rd parameter: