![]() ![]() Multiple statements may be on the same line, but each must have its own colon or semicolon. A single command ends with a semicolon implicitly. Maple syntax uses either a semicolon or a colon to end a statement. Enter “? Worksheet- Toolbar” for detailed information. The tool bar provides accelerated access to the most commonly used options see Figure 1.4. Immediately below the Maple window’s title bar (Macintosh) or menu bar (Windows) is the Maple tool bar. Enter “? worksheet,reference,standard Menubar” for detailed information on all menus. The menu bar includes File, Edit, View, Insert, Format, Plot, Tools, Window, and Help, much like any software. The menu bar provides easy access and collocation (collocation is defined as a sequence of words or terms which co-occur more often than would be expected by chance) of many commonly used options. The Maple menu bar is located at the top of the screen on a Macintosh, and immediately below the Maple title in Windows. The output regions are generated by the user’s input commands and cannot be manipulated once they appear in a document, although the user is allowed to delete these results. Once the graphic is pasted into the worksheet, it can no longer be edited or manipulated. Graphic regions, once they are generated by input commands, can be copied and pasted into a worksheet or into another document. Text regions assist in documentation and explanation of the input/output regions of the document and they may be placed anywhere in a document. If the symbol > itself is typed by the user, Maple does not respond to it as an input prompt, but as the “greater than” relation.) The input commands, output characters and text regions are all of different font size and color to assist the user in distinguishing between them. (Note: Maple only recognizes the Maple generated > prompt. The input region is identified by the > prompt which precedes all command entries into Maple. A command must be edited and re-executed to alter its associated output. The input and text regions of the worksheet can be modified to change a document, but the graphic and output regions cannot be modified once Maple inserts them into a document. We will use Worksheet mode rather than Document mode since Worksheets show a command prompt, but Documents do not. Then it can be re-saved after modification by clicking File, followed by clicking Save. Once a document has initially been saved, it can be retrieved by clicking File, clicking Open, and entering the document name. ![]() The name of the document can be any word or group of letters and/or numbers, which has a length of less than nine characters. The user may manipulate these interactions to create a flowing document that can be saved by clicking File, then clicking Save As followed by naming the document. Within a worksheet, commands (input) and text (remarks for clarification) are entered by the user, and results, numerical or symbolic (output and graphics) are produced by Maple. The worksheet is where all interaction between Maple and the user occurs. In this book, the worksheet and help windows are used most often. Many “Maple Assistants” use a “maple” window. Maple has many types of windows: the worksheet or document window, help window, 2-D plot window, 3-D plot window, and the animation window. ![]()
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