Re: [Maxima-discuss] Intro to Special Functions section and other issues.

[Ray R. <ray...@gm...>]

Nice, works here; Ubuntu Mate 22.04
But upon looking at it; is there an organized simple way to install more 
or new, to Maxima,  functions?  That way the library could grow and 
accumulate ;)   Say a form  with:
Name, Reference, Comment-1, Definition, syntax, Comment-2, examples, 
internal cross-references, etc ...
Then the form could be automatically inserted into the main code in a 
structured manner; or removed :)
Like a library book on a shelf :)  Seldom read but appreciated when needed.
An old saying from the 80's: Programs (algorithms) come and programs go 
but Data lives forever :)
I consider these established functions to be a form of "Data" (re. 
knowledge) that goes back 100's of years.
I realize such a "form" form would cause interminable debate, but nobody 
would argue that having something like this would be a good.

rrogers

On 7/19/22 11:33, Raymond Toy wrote:
> I'm perfectly content with 
> https://maxima.common-lisp.dev/docs/maxima_77.html which lists the 
> subsections.  The introduction section isn't really needed.  May want 
> to expand this section to mention the elliptic functions/integrals and 
> orthopoly for more special functions.
>
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 5:15 PM Raymond Toy <toy...@gm...> wrote:
>
>     I took upon myself to update the intro to special functions.  What
>     I did was create an itemized list of each subsection and then
>     listed all the functions (in a two-column table) in that section. 
>     It's a lot of entries.  Once it's done, it will be complete, but
>     it's a lot of work to remember to maintain this.
>
>     And didn't add the variables to the table.
>
>     You can find the changes on rtoy-update-intro-specfun branch. (See
>     https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/code/ci/rtoy-update-intro-specfun/tree/doc/info/Special.texi.m4)
>     It's not complete.
>
>     On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 3:04 PM Raymond Toy <toy...@gm...>
>     wrote:
>
>         Ok. I was just going to rearrange it a little and add links to
>         the functions in the section, removing anything else not in
>         the section.  And referencing elliptic functions and
>         orthogonal polynomials.
>
>         On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 11:40 AM Robert Dodier
>         <rob...@gm...> wrote:
>
>             OK, with the various comments about the special functions
>             table in
>             mind, I volunteer to revise and update the table.
>
>             best,
>
>             Robert
>
>
>
>         -- 
>         Ray
>
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>
>     -- 
>     Ray
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> -- 
> Ray
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