You spoke, we listened. Maple 18 features a number of enhancements suggested by customers and the Maple user community, including:
- Not only is
searching
the Maple help system faster and more powerful, the new help search box makes finding Maple content easier than ever.
- A new
Calculus palette
includes templates for easy insertion of double integrals and dot derivatives.
- Plot size can be programmatically controlled using the new
size
option.
- It is now possible to use
background images
and colors on plots.
- Numerous
embedded component enhancements
such as border control and the password property for text areas.
- The new
CycleIndexPolynomial
command in the GroupTheory package was implemented in response to a customer request.
- You can now
return a sorted sequence of the entries or indices of a table
using the new indexorder option.
- Many new context menu operations have been added for the
Student packages
. In addition, the context menus for Student packages have been sorted into one easy to find sub-menu.
- The new LinearSolveSteps command in the
Student Basics
package makes it possible to see the step-by-step breakdowns for expanding and simplifying mathematical expressions.
