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Error in manual for ratpow #3026

Open rtoy opened 1 week ago

rtoy commented 1 week ago

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-07 09:33:08 Created by macrakis on 2018-07-25 20:34:41 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3456

Section 77 currently opens: The package ratpow provides functions that find the exponents of the denominator in a CRE polynomial. If the exponents in the denominator...

This is incorrect. It should read numerator and should mention the coefficients: The package ratpow provides functions that extract the coefficients and exponents of the numerator in a CRE polynomial. To extract them from the numerator, use ratdenom.

rtoy commented 1 week ago

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-07 09:33:08 Created by kjak on 2018-07-29 19:34:42 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3456/#9aa9

I'll replace the first paragraph of the ratpow section with whatever wording you like, but it looks like you had a typo in the second sentence of your suggestion.

Do you want the first paragraph replaced with the following?

"The package ratpow provides functions that extract the coefficients and exponents of the numerator in a CRE polynomial. To extract them from the denominator, use ratdenom."

rtoy commented 1 week ago

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-07 09:33:12 Created by robert_dodier on 2018-08-18 19:51:55 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3456/#3531

rtoy commented 1 week ago

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-07 09:33:16 Created by peterpall on 2018-08-19 06:53:50 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3456/#3531/07c2

We would need an

@anchor ratpow

The introduction nodes currently are counter-productive as the integrated help browser of Maxima currently ignores the menu the introduction node comes with and therefore doesn't provide the user with any way of seeing the functions the package provides

An example of a package whose documentation cannot be viewed in the integrated help browser because it provides an introduction node is:

? draw
rtoy commented 1 week ago

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-07 09:33:19 Created by peterpall on 2018-08-19 14:50:50 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3456/#3531/07c2/4700

Moved the introduction stuff to bug #3460.