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NAME

       mascyma - A user-friendly GUI frontend for Maxima

SYNTAX

       mascyma [option]

DESCRIPTION

       Mascyma  is  --  or  rather,  tries  to be -- a user-friendly graphical
       frontend for the Computer Algebra System GNU MAXIMA.  It is written  in
       Python  and  provides  two GUIs, one of which based on PyGTK, the other
       based on wxPython.

OPTIONS

       -t TOOLKIT, --toolkit=TOOLKIT
              Select the TOOLKIT  to  use.  Available  values  are:  wx,  gtk.
              Default: gtk.

       -m PROGRAM, --maxima=PROGRAM
              Select the MAXIMA PROGRAM to run. Default: maxima.

       --help Output help information and exit.

       --version
              Output version information and exit.

EXAMPLES

       To select the wxPython interface instead of the default PyGTK one:

       mascyma -twx

       To  select the MAXIMA installed in /usr/local/stow/maxima and the PyGTK
       interface:

       mascyma --toolkit=gtk --maxima=/usr/local/stow/maxima/bin/maxima

AUTHORS

       Matthias Andreas Benkard <mulk@mbenkard.de>

SEE ALSO

       maxima(1)