Re: Please review description of wxMaxima
Frank S. Thomas wrote:
> Description: graphical user interface for the computer algebra system Maxima
Fully DevRef6.2.2-compliant*, but I suppose you could afford to
abbreviate "graphical user interface" to "GUI", given that it's
expanded in the first line of the long description; this also
reduces the repetition.
> wxMaxima is a graphical user interface for the computer algebra system
> Maxima. It eases the use of Maxima by making most of its commands available
> through a menu system and by providing input dialogs for commands that
> require more than one argument. It also implements its own display engine
> that outputs mathematical symbols directly instead of depicting them with
> ASCII characters.
No complaints. Even the initial lowercase doesn't bother me, since
it's obviously intentional.
> wxMaxima also features a browser for Maxima's manual including command index
> and full text searching, 2D and 3D inline plots, simple animations, mixing
> of text and mathematical calculations to create documents, and the export of
> input and output to TeX.
On my first read-through of that I parsed it as
wxMaxima also features a browser for Maxima's manual including:
* command index and full text searching,
* 2D and 3D inline plots,
[etc]
so (assuming that's wrong) I'd suggest shifting the manual-browser
one to last:
wxMaxima also features 2D and 3D inline plots, simple animations, mixing of
text and mathematical calculations to create documents, exporting of input
and output to TeX, and a browser for Maxima's manual including command
index and full text searching,
--
JBR *) and list regulars may be glad to hear that DR622 is now
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--- pd.old 2009-06-27 13:28:20.000000000 +0100
+++ pd.new 2009-06-27 13:35:07.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Description: graphical user interface for the computer algebra system Maxima
+Description: GUI for the computer algebra system Maxima
wxMaxima is a graphical user interface for the computer algebra system
Maxima. It eases the use of Maxima by making most of its commands available
through a menu system and by providing input dialogs for commands that
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
that outputs mathematical symbols directly instead of depicting them with
ASCII characters.
.
- wxMaxima also features a browser for Maxima's manual including command index
- and full text searching, 2D and 3D inline plots, simple animations, mixing
- of text and mathematical calculations to create documents, and the export of
- input and output to TeX.
+ wxMaxima also features 2D and 3D inline plots, simple animations, mixing of
+ text and mathematical calculations to create documents, exporting of input
+ and output to TeX, and a browser for Maxima's manual including command
+ index and full text searching.
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