wxmaxima(1)

1WXMAXIMA(1)                 General Commands Manual                WXMAXIMA(1)
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NAME

6       wxmaxima - wxWidgets interface for Maxima
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SYNOPSIS

10       wxmaxima  [-v]  [-h]  [-o  <str>]  [-e]  [-b]  [--logtostdout] [--pipe]
11       [--exit-on-error] [-f <str>] [-u  <str>]  [-l  <str>]  [-X  <str>]  [-m
12       <str>] [--enableipc] [input file...]
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DESCRIPTION

16       wxMaxima is a rather self-explanatory graphical front-end to the Maxima
17       computer algebra system. It provides a graphical interface and 2D  for‐
18       matted output display for Maxima. Its menu system facilitates access to
19       a huge part of the Maxima native set of commands and also to  a  brows‐
20       able  Maxima  help.  The dialogue windows make easy the introduction of
21       mathematical entities such as limits, matrices, etc. Besides  that,  it
22       extends  Maxima with a few powerful features like the ability to create
23       diagrams with one parameter bound to a slider gui control.
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25       One can create worksheets, which can include  mathematical  cells  (and
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29       Maxima is a free (GPL) common lisp implementation based on the original
30       computer  algebra system Macsyma developed at MIT. It has full documen‐
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OPTIONS

38       -h, --help
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47              processes  the  file,  saves it afterward. Will halt if wxMaxima
48              finds an error message in Maxima's output and  pause  if  Maxima
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64       --pipe Pipe messages from Maxima to stdout.
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92              Lets  Maxima  control  wxMaxima via interprocess communications.
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97       ~/.wxMaxima
98              The personal wxMaxima initialization file,  where  user-specific
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103              If  the  Maxima user directory - usually ~/.maxima/ - contains a
104              text file named wxmaxima-init.mac the contents of the  file  are
105              passed  to  Maxima  automatically every time a new worksheet has
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BUGS

110       If you find a bug in wxMaxima, please report it  in  the  wxMaxima  bug
111       database ⟨https://github.com/wxMaxima-developers/wxmaxima/issues⟩
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113       (Please check first, if it was not already reported.) And if you have a
114       fix, that would be great. wxMaxima is an open-source project, where you
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117       If  the  issue  is a mathematical bug, it might be a bug in Maxima (the
118       backend, which does the mathematical computations), not  wxMaxima  (the
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121       The    Maxima    bug    database    is    available    at   Sourceforge
122       ⟨https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/⟩
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AUTHORS

126       • J. Rafael Rodriguez Galvan (Debian project), original author  of  the
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129       • Gunter Königsmann (wxMaxima project)
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131       • Wolfgang Dautermannn (wxMaxima project)
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134       Permission  is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
135       under the terms of the GNU General Public License,  Version  2  or  any
136       later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
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