E F L P R S   website, discussed version: 17

Installation

• Important: all folders that you plan to access from Maple must have no spaces or special symbols.
• Run installer.
• Activate by a purchase code or copy license.dat to the program license folder.
• The program maple.exe tries to take control over network connections – block it.
• Configure Tools/Options. The configuration file is here. Here are my favorite settings:
  • General: disable updates and MapleCloud.
  • Display: Maple Notation for Input display, hide equation labels.
  • Interface: Open hyperlinks in New Tab, default format is Worksheet, disable Quick Help.
  • Precision: Limit expression length to 50000.
• Install additional packages from my list below or from Maple Application Center.
• Create the initialization file (maple.ini) and copy it to your root user folder. Delete such file from the program Users folder, because that file has a preference. Here is my maple.ini, which in particular defines special folders used by the described below packages:
  • UserConfigurationFolder – path to user configuration files;
  • ModulesFolder – path to modules not installed as packages;
  • RootDataFolder – data are searched starting from and referenced relative to this folder;
  • TemporaryFilesFolder – temporary files are stored here.
• Create custom worksheet styles and use via Format/Manage Style Sets. Here is my default style: styleset_default.mw.
• To run code without GUI see test. Copy run.bat and all code files to a single folder and use this FileAssoc.

My packages

• BasicTools – basic routines lacking in standard Maple distribution (required for all my other packages)
• SSH – supports SSH network protocol via PuTTY or similar client
• FiniteGroups – manipulation with finite groups
• PointGroups – in-depth manipulation with point groups
• LatticeTools – routines for working with lattices (currently under upgrade)
• MolMod – molecular and crystal modeling
• AstroTools – a few routines for an amateur astronomer

Installation of my packages:

• Best option: Download source files (packagename.zip), unzip to any location, open install.mw and follow the instructions.
• Windows users: If failed to install or you don't need the source, download compiled library (packagename_lib.zip) and unzip to Maple User library folder.
• Experienced users: Packages can be initialized by reading packagename.ini with Maple "read" command.
• To change default settings use packagename[Setup] command or make changes directly to packagename.ini.
• Updates can be checked by Check4Updates command.

Poorly documented outdated applications:

• ALPS – provides interface to ALPS for extended Hubbard model
• ALPS example on Ising model: Maple worksheet only, whole working folder
• Producing eps- and pdf-figures using PSTricks: example, tex-output, pdf-output

Tips and tricks

• Maple bugs and problems.
• Use option hfloat.
• Don't use add command with Matrices.
• For editing standalone Maple code use any text editors with syntax highlighting. I use PSPad, see details here (I store Maple code in text files with the extension ini).
• If you get error "Cannot find maple engine library maple.dll" add C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\Shared Libraries\redist\intel64\compiler to Windows PATH.

My notations and programming style guide

• All packages have Setup command documented in BasicTools.
• Optional arguments are separated by "/", e.g. proc(a,b,/c,d,{e,f},$).
• List names are constructed by adding "s" to element name, e.g. mts::list(mt)
• Commonly used keyword arguments:
  • digits::posint – for printout
  • fulloutput::boolean – return excessive output
  • noerror::boolean – do not raise error
  • output::string – specify what to return as comma separated or single-character encoded string
  • overwrite::boolean – overwrite files without a notice
  • printnot::boolean – do not print it
  • printout::boolean – print information during command execution
  • simplifyf::procedure – simplification routine
  • sym::boolean – use symmetry or generate symmetric object

updated 20.04.2024