Git commit 780939afe1f2358857089b9f70a0f552eccf7430 by Yuri Chornoivan. Committed on 27/10/2013 at 08:30. Pushed by yurchor into branch 'master'.
Sync docs with current version M +33 -8 doc/index.docbook http://commits.kde.org/cantor/780939afe1f2358857089b9f70a0f552eccf7430 diff --git a/doc/index.docbook b/doc/index.docbook index 7ff49e6..7de0336 100644 --- a/doc/index.docbook +++ b/doc/index.docbook @@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ </copyright> <legalnotice>&FDLNotice;</legalnotice> -<date>2012-10-12</date> -<releaseinfo>0.4 (&kde; 4.10)</releaseinfo> +<date>2013-10-27</date> +<releaseinfo>0.4 (&kde; 4.12)</releaseinfo> <abstract> <para> @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ nice worksheet view to other Free Software Math packages. <keyword>math</keyword> <keyword>Cantor</keyword> <keyword>Sage</keyword> +<keyword>Python</keyword> +<keyword>Scilab</keyword> <keyword>R</keyword> <keyword>Maxima</keyword> </keywordset> @@ -144,10 +146,10 @@ Screenshot: </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> - <term>KAlgebra:</term> + <term>&kalgebra;:</term> <listitem> <para> - KAlgebra is a MathML-based graph calculator, that ships with KDE Education project. + &kalgebra; is a MathML-based graph calculator, that ships with &kde; Education project. See <ulink url="http://edu.kde.org/kalgebra/";>http://edu.kde.org/kalgebra/</ulink> for more information. </para> </listitem> @@ -172,6 +174,29 @@ Screenshot: </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> + <term>Python2:</term> + <listitem> + <para> + Python is a remarkably powerful dynamic programming language that is used +in a wide variety of application domains. There are several Python packages +to scientific programming. + </para> + <para>Python is distributed under Python Software Foundation license (GPL compatible). + See the <ulink url="http://www.python.org/";>official website</ulink> for more information. + </para> + <note> + <para> + This backend adds an additional item to the &cantor;'s main menu, <guimenu>Package</guimenu>. The only item of this menu is <menuchoice><guimenu>Package</guimenu><guimenuitem>Import Package</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. This item can be used to import Python packages to the worksheet. + </para> + </note> + <warning> + <para> + This backend supports Python 2 only. + </para> + </warning> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + <varlistentry> <term>Scilab:</term> <listitem> <para> @@ -183,7 +208,7 @@ Screenshot: </para> <warning> <para> - You need Scilab version 5.4 or higher to be installed in your system to make this backend usable. + You need Scilab version 5.5 or higher to be installed in your system to make this backend usable. </para> </warning> </listitem> @@ -192,7 +217,7 @@ Screenshot: <term>Octave:</term> <listitem> <para> - GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical + &GNU; Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with <ulink url="http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/";>MATLAB</ulink>. @@ -224,7 +249,7 @@ Screenshot: <orderedlist> <listitem><para>The tab bar, where you can switch through the open worksheets.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>A help panel, where help for a specific command is displayed if you enter "? command".</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>A Variable Manager panel where you can see the list of all available variables on the current worksheet. The Help and Variable Manager panels are shown as tabs on a sidebar of a &cantor; window. Variable manager can be used for Maxima (if enabled on <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure &cantor;...</guimenuitem></menuchoice> <guilabel>Maxima</guilabel> page), KAlgebra, Octave, and Qualculate backends only.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>A Variable Manager panel where you can see the list of all available variables on the current worksheet. The Help and Variable Manager panels are shown as tabs on a sidebar of a &cantor; window. Variable manager can be used for Maxima (if enabled on <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure &cantor;...</guimenuitem></menuchoice> <guilabel>Maxima</guilabel> page), &kalgebra;, Octave, Python2, Qualculate, and Scilab backends only.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>The worksheet itself.</para></listitem> </orderedlist> </para> @@ -588,7 +613,7 @@ All interface definitions are in the <filename role="directory">lib</filename> d </qandaentry> <qandaentry> <question><para>What a peculiar name - what does it have to do with mathematics?</para></question> - <answer><para>Cantor is named after the German mathematician <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor";>Georg Cantor</ulink>, the creator of set theory.</para></answer> + <answer><para>&cantor; is named after the German mathematician <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor";>Georg Cantor</ulink>, the creator of set theory.</para></answer> </qandaentry> </qandaset> </chapter>
