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.TH "WXMAXIMA" "1" 
.SH "NAME" 
wxmaxima \(em wxWidgets interface for maxima 
.SH "SYNOPSIS" 
.PP 
\fBwxmaxima\fR 
.SH "DESCRIPTION" 
.PP 
This manual page documents briefly the 
\fBwxmaxima\fR command and originally was written for the \fBDebian\fP
distribution because the original program did not have a manual 
page at this time. Instead, it has extensive documentation that is
in accessible using it's Help menu.
.PP 
\fBwxmaxima\fR is a rather self-explanatory 
front-end to the maxima computer algebra system. It  
provides a graphical interface and 2D formated output display 
for maxima. Its menu system facilitates the access to a huge part of 
the maxima native set of commands and also to a browsable maxima 
help. The dialogue windows make easy the introduction of 
mathematical entities such as limits, matrices, etc. Besides that
it extends maxima with a few powerful features like the ability to
create diagrams with one parameter bound to a slider gui control.
.PP 
maxima is a free (GPL) common lisp implementation based of the 
original computer algebra system Macsyma developed at MIT. It 
has full documentation (HTML and info) included in the  
maxima-doc Debian package. 
.PP 
It uses the cross-platform GUI toolkit wxWidgets and 
runs natively on many operative systems. 
 
.SH "OPTIONS" 
.TP
.I \-h, \-\-help
Help: prints a list of options.

.TP
.I \-V, \-\-version
Prints the current version.

.TP
.I \-b, \-\-batch
processes the file, saves it afterwards. Will halt if wxMaxima finds an
error message in maxima's output and pause if maxima asks a question.

.SH "SEE ALSO" 
.PP 
maxima (1), xmaxima (1). 
.SH "AUTHOR" 
.PP 
This manual page was written by J. Rafael Rodriguez Galvan rafael.rodriguez@uca.es for 
the \fBDebian\fP system (but may be used by others) and updated by Gunter Königsmann
wxMaxima@physikbuch.de.  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any  
later version published by the Free Software Foundation. 
 
.PP 
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public 
License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.