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With the URL-linking feature
in Maple 6, you can turn your Maple worksheet into an interactive, mathematical Internet browser.
This feature provides an excellent means of delivering mathematical material for distance learning or for publishing your research work in a way that can be used immediately by your students and colleagues.
There are two possible scenarios in which Maple can be used for loading and processing worksheets on the Web. The first is when you are browsing the Web and you click on a published Maple worksheet (.MWS).
If you have a copy of Maple installed on your computer, you have the option of either saving the downloaded document, or opening it directly within Maple. If this does not work on your system, please read "Configuring Maple to load Worksheets from the World Wide Web" at http://www.maplesoft. com/apps/html/configure maple.html.
The second scenario is by using Maple as the browser. If you want to publish Maple worksheets on the Web, simply ftp them to a web server to which you have write access (such as your own web site). Next, create a worksheet that will act as a Table of Contents or Index document.
In this worksheet you can create a URL link by clicking in a text region, and choosing the Insert, Hyperlink menu item. This will give you the dialog box shown above.
Here, you can enter some descriptive text, the path and name of another worksheet or help page on your computer, or a URL to a published Maple Worksheet or HTML document.
If the link target is a Maple worksheet, it will load straight into Maple for processing. If it is an HTML document, your default browser is launched, and the document can be viewed there.
To view some example worksheets available on the World Wide Web, check out our application center examples at
http://www.maplesoft. com/apps/index.html, and follow the links to example worksheets. For an example of a Maple worksheet that is set up as a browser, view: http://www.maplesoft. com/apps/browser.html. |
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