Getting started

When Maple starts, there are five horizontal bars on the top of the screen. On the first bar there is the title of worksheet along with Maple resease, say Maple2020. The seond bar contains the usual menu with pull down possible options. Below it, there is a list of icons for several Maple applications and additional options. The fourth bar contains "Pelettes" with several options, workbook opener or saver, the title of using right now workbook. The last bar contains text input options.

When you open the notebook, the cursor is positioned by the prompt inside a worksheet ready to enter an expression for processing by Maple. In the forth line you see the following options to enter your commands.

  • Annotation Title
  • Author
  • Bullet Item
  • Dash Item
  • Diagnostic
  • Error
  • Heading 1
  • Heading 2
  • Heading 3
  • Heading 4
  • Hyperlink Error
  • Hyperlink Warning
  • Kine Printed O
  • List Item
  • Maple Output
  • Maple Plot
  • Normal
  • Ordered List 1
  • Ordered List 2
  • Ordered List 3
  • Ordered List 4
  • Ordered List 5
  • Text Output
  • Title
  • Warning
  • 2D Inert Output
  • 2D Input
  • 2D Math
  • 2D Output
  • Annotation Text
  • Atomic Variable
  • Caption Reference
  • Caption Text
  • Code
  • Dictionary Hyper
  • Equation Label
  • Header and Footer
  • Hyperlink
  • Maple Input
  • Maple Input Plain
  • Text

Maple has help facility and you can enter your topic into "Search" prompt. You can also type after the question mark the comamnd you are looking for. By typing, for instance, "?int", you get information regarding Maple command int. 

(a*b)/c+13*d
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another line
\[ {\frac {ab}{c}}+13\,d \]
(a*b)/c+13*d \[ {\frac {ab}{c}}+13\,d \]