Vladimir Bondarenko
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 Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 9:40 am Post subject: File Maple bugs! |
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Dr. Jacques Carette http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~carette/ writes
http://www.mapleprimes.com/forum/quadraticproblemformattingissue
"I am not sure if the Maplesoft developers really know how much
the Standard prettyprinter is a very serious regression from
Classic.
This is but one example. There are all sorts of issues with
baselines that are too high or too low, exponents that are too
high, too low, too far left or right [same with subscripts],
weird placement of minus signs, extra parenthesis when they
are not needed, missing parentheses when they are, etc.
Also the fonts they use are fuzzier - I don>t know where that
comes from. I know this was an issue with WebEQ as well; that
turned out to be because for some (stupid!) reason a weird (and
completely unecessary) scaling factor was applied to all glyphs,
thus making them fuzzy. If the fonts are used 'scaled' instead
of at their natural sizes, that might be the cause. But the
worst is probably the line-breaking.
VERY often I have seen a break in an expression that looks like
expr^(1/3) + expr2^(1/3) where the break is to put just the ^(1/3)
[typeset as a superscript] on its own on the next line!
Sometimes, I have even see weird things like just an open ( on
one line at the end, and the rest of the expression on the next.
Just incredible stuff.
But as I use Classic in part because I can>t stand how awful the
math now looks, and in part because I mostly use Maple to get
some work done and Classic allows me to do that much more
efficiently.
Standard, even in 1D worksheet mode, is not nearly as responsive
as Classic. Plus Standard has lost the % labelling on large
expressions."
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Vladimir Bondarenko
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