Can someone explain what the meaning of "visible character width" for e.g. TextArea components is?

My understanding is that the width should correspond to the number of characters that are visible in the TextArea. But apparently this is not the case.

A definition of 4 allows at least 8 characters. A definition of 6 at least 12, 8 gives 16 and 10 gives 20.

Test_visible_character_width.mw

There seems to be a regression in Maple 2026 in the XMLTools:-ParseFile function.

As Maple2026 is not yet in the list of products to be chosen, I have added it in the subject.

Error, (in XMLTools:-ParseFile) invalid input: too many and/or wrong type of arguments passed to XMLTools:-NSXML:-Parser:-ParseFile; first unused argument is prolog = true

The test file is right from the help related to ParseFile.
Test_XML.mw

Glad that 2026 has been released now, and I will certainly use it as the default version in the future.

While there are a lot of new features, one thing that keeps annoying me is the inferior font quality, compared to other software.

Here's a screenshot of 4 different programs, all with font Arial 11pt and 100% zoom factor. Font AntiAliasing is set to enabled in Maple.

Judge it for yourself, but in my opinion it gives a clear picture that Maple is much worse to read than any of the other software packages (Word, LibreOffice, pdfXChange).

I've modified the geometry:-intersection example from the help file to show an error which I am struggling to understand.

Why does a redefinition of a geometry object throw an error?

Test_intersection.mw

There seems to be a bug in the round function when using units.

Download round.mw