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Document Introspection Techniques

OptimusMaplePrime — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:20:53 Z

Question

What are the best techniques for performing introspection in Maple Documents?

Background

I would like to use the content within a Maple Document (.mw) as input to calculations and operations within the same document. I am aware of the DocumentTools Package, but it seems that needs to open a copy of the current document to perform operations and is dependent on the current document being saved to disk rather than working with what is already in memory. What techniques are available to work with the document's data model and content within the document, such section headings, section structure, and paragraph text content - as opposed to just the variables that have been defined?

Using Maple with an Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) system.

OptimusMaplePrime — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:04:44 Z

Question

Any suggestions for Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) systems that work well with Maple Documents?

Background

I find Maple Documents (.mw) useful for scientific work and data analysis. I frequently organize my documents in the style of a laboratory notebook experiment. The collapsible section heading and execution repeatability are key capabilities. Managing a collection of Maple Documents over time via file systems and revision controls systems (e.g., Git) is adequate, however it seems the workflow support and compliance capabilities of an ELN would be useful as well. A typical tension in the class of ELN systems is that many of them are prescriptive about the editor, requiring or strongly encouraging something like a web-based WYSIWYG editor that lacks the literate programming capabilities of Maple. If anyone has had a good experience taking advantage of ELN capabilities without them interfering with a Maple-document centric authoring workflow, please let me know.

`Solve/linear` dependencies.

Christian Wolinski — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:44:31 Z

Error, (in LinearAlgebra:-Modular:-IntegerLinearSolve) invalid arguments to iratrecon

I ran a procedure that uses only `solve/linear`. The above error was returned. Any ideas how to prevent it or why it happened?

How does `solve/linear` reach LinearAlgebra:-Modular:-IntegerLinearSolve?

Does Maple work with a VPN?

nmacsai — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:13:47 Z

Does Maple natively work while using a VPN? If not, where do I go to learn how to configure it so it will work using a VPN? In Maple 2025 and Maple 2026, Maple will soft-lock when when attempting to execute any worksheet or attempting to read any help section when using a VPN under the default configuration configuration of Maple.

OpenMaple installation

Anthrazit — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:42:34 Z

I'm trying to play around using Maple from other programs (Python, Grasshopper, etc.).

As far as I can see the options are cmaple.exe (command line) and OpenMaple.

Regarding OpenMaple I'm stuck with getting it to work. As far as I can see, I need to define the MAPLE variable, and extend the path, right?

I've added 2 things to the user environment variable in Windows.

MAPLE=C:\Program Files\Maple 2026
Path=.....;C:\Program Files\Maple 2026\bin.X86_64_WINDOWS

To test I've used the program provided in the help file.

import maplesoft.maple.namespace as msymbol

Unfortunately I get: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'maplesoft'

Any hints?

Series simplification performance

segfault — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:11:30 Z

If I compare Maple 2024 and Maple 2022 on the exact same worksheet, Maple 2022 executes twice as fast as Maple 2024.

For my kind of work this is very serious. I have programs that can take 10 or more days to complete calcuations, therefore what Maple 2022 will calculate in 10 days, Maple 2024 takes 20 days. It has wasted a LOT of my time, whatever the reason is.

Here is the code:
1) MM must be a high order series expansion with complex arguments so that simplification is not trivial. Use any such asymptotic expansion.
NOTE: I can supply an expansion for a developer through official Maple support, but cannot release it publicly as it is part of a future publication. It is easy enough for anyone to create a complex expansion, with difficult simplification.
2) The simplification of the expansion must at least take a couple of minutes at e.g. Order=10 for the comparison to make sense.
3) Then run the program for Maple 2022 and Maple 2024 respectively and note execution time.
4) This was run on Linux.

As you will see the Maple 2024 calculation takes twice as long as the Maple 2022 calculation.
SEE RESULTS AT END OF PROGRAM.

testorder:=6; # Enter the expansion order here.
MM:=??: # Enter the expansion here.
series(MM, x = 0, testorder):
convert(%, polynom):
map(simplify, %):
#collect(%, x, simplify):
simplify(%):

testorder := 6

RESULTS:

OPTION1 Calculation time for series MM,

Maple 2024
O(4): Linux Wall-Clock Time: 1.000 seconds
O(6): Linux Wall-Clock Time: 11.000 seconds
O(8): Linux Wall-Clock Time: 153.000 seconds
O(10): Linux Wall-Clock Time: 2135.000 seconds
O(12): Linux Wall-Clock Time: 19593.000 seconds

Maple 2022
O(4): Linux Wall-Clock Time: 0.000 seconds
O(6): Linux Wall-Clock Time: 9.000 seconds
O(8): Linux Wall-Clock Time: 88.000 seconds
O(10): Linux Wall-Clock Time: 1062.000 seconds
O(12): Linux Wall-Clock Time: 8987.000 seconds