Copying Maple WorkSheets or Plots
Maple Question: How to copy Maple Worksheets? Not easily!
The problem is that Maple Worksheet input is ASCII text, but Worksheet and
MaplePlot output are EPS (Encapsulated PostScript, *.eps) files.
postscript file.
{Remark: This is essentially a quick note sent to MCS471 class, that
will be re-edited at a later date. Description is for NeXT computer systems,
such as in Mathlab 200SEO, mileage on other systems will vary tremendously.
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- Print and Preview Solution:
Easy Way for both Maple Worksheets and Plots: Click on the print menu
item for the Maple.app WorkSheet or the MaplePlot.app plot, then click on
Preview at the bottom of the Print window, then click on the Previewed output
window, then save the output into a *.ps file in your directory.
- Copy & Paste Solution: Easier way for Worksheet Inputs only:
In Maple.app, press the left mouse button as you drag it over the Maple
Worksheet input or command, graying out your selection (a quick triple clicking
of the left mouse key will gray out a whole line and dragging it down will
gray out more lines of plain text), then press Alt-c keys simultaneously to
copy (or click on the Edit/Copy menu item), then go to the medium like an
Edit.app window that you wanted to put your copy into, then click with the
mouse at the target place in the Edit window, then press Alt-v keys
simultaneously (same as clicking the Edit/Paste menu item) to paste
your copy save in the copy buffer. If it works satisfactorily, save the
Edit window by pressing Alt-s simultaneously (same as clicking the File/Save
menu item). Note that you can copy and paste Maple Worksheet Input within
the Worksheet window itself or from Worksheet window to Worksheet window.
- Plain Text Solution: Easier way for Worksheets only:
In Maple.app, click on the
Worksheet --> Export submenu and select the Plain Text option at the
bottom pull-down button (not LaTeX) and save it into a file, say maple-2.txt.
The options are *.ms or *.maple for the Save As... or Save To.. or Save All...
submenus, which may work on some other machines, or maybe not.
The latex option requires three sty files...so not useful.
- Alt-drag-EPS & RTF Solution:
MaplePlot pictures can be copied if you have a medium that
can save EPS files. On a Next computer, the simplest way is to open an
Edit.app window (icon has a pencil on text) press Alt-R together to change it
into a Rich Text File (RTF). Now go back to you plot, just press the Alt key
while dragging the mouse from inside to outside the plot, an EPS Icon should
appear, click on the Edit window and the EPS file should drop into the RTF
file, changing the RTF file to an RTFD (RTF directory) file. You can also
copy and paste Maple.app input from a Maple Worksheet into an RTF edit window
and you can similarly drag Maple output using the Alt-drag/mouse EPS file to
the RTFD file. You can continue to edit the RTF like a regular edit window,
like adding comments and making a more professional report.
{Remark: Strangely enough, the help for this technique is in the
MaplePlot.app Info/Help menu, but not in the woefully inadequate Maple.app
Info/Help menu.}
Web Source: http://www.math.uic.edu/~hanson/MAPLE/MapleCopy.html