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This release updates the algebra system Yacas. It brings complete support for scientific notation.

Changes:
- Yacas 1.6.0 (master branch git cafc5a3)
refer to http://www.yacas.org/release_1_6_0/ for details.

This release updates the algebra system Yacas.

Changes:
- Yacas 1.5.0+ (develop branch git 22f4188) --> accept scientific notation "2.0e-3"

This stable release provides the recent version 1.4 of the algebra system Yacas.

Changes:
- Default control character set to § (§m, §i, §io, §o, §n).
- The previously used dollar char is available using the option --controlchar $ (or -D$).
- Yacas 1.4.2 --> native unicode support (for all platforms)
- mavscript-yacas transfers unicode chars to yacas, without parameter --ascii (Windows too).

Mavscript has been uploaded to a software repository on the opensuse build server.

Go to http://software.opensuse.org/package/mavscript?search_term=mavscript. There are repos for various rpm based Linux distributions like openSUSE, Redhat, Fedora, ScientificLinux.
You can add http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/qwert2003/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ (choose your distro) to your favorite repos, that way you'll get update notifications.

This release enables drawing functionality inside mavscript templates. Drawj2d (drawj2d.sourceforge.net) is required.

Changes:
- mavscript-yacas (init.ys) provides functions for Drawj2d: SetVar(), Att(), Drawj2d()
- example template with Drawj2d drawing
- example template using Markdown markup
- Yacas 1.3.6+ (svn r3323 / git ac9da7d) --> native unicode support
- mavscript-yacas transfers unicode chars to yacas, without parameter --ascii (Linux + Mac).
- chars ² und ³ will not be converted to ^2 und ^3