ANNOUNCE: GENIUS 1.0.23 the "Yelp yelp I'm being oppressed" release

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Genius is a general purpose calculator with many advanced capabilities.

To find out more go to:

http://www.jirka.org/genius.html

 

The main new thing in this release is that the help system has been ripped

out and replaced with just generated HTML files which are installed and

then genius can just direct a webbrowser towards them. Links therefore now

work properly (much better than in yelp), it works from the command line

version, and it does not depend on gnome-common, nor does it introduce any

new build dependencies. Yay! There's also been a couple of improvements

on the "Examples" front.

 

In any case, Genius is one of the oldest GNOME projects going back to late

1997. It was the original GNOME calculator before I got wild ideas about it

doing absolutely everything. It is programmable, has a powerful language and

handles many fun features including support for matrices, rational numbers,

and nice 2D and 3D plotting. The GUI version requires GNOME2 (at least glib2

if you don't want a GUI) a recent enough GMP library and the MPFR library.

You can still use the command line version if you prefer non-gui interface.

 

Here are the news in 1.0.23:

 

* Stop depending the build system on gnome-common

* Help is now built as HTML and displayed in the browser,

meaning it actually works, links work, and it doesn't

depend on any particular desktop environment being installed.

The HTML help is also shown in the command line version when

"manual" is run.

* New example for Duffing equation

* New example on traces of the Peano function

* Couple of fixes/improvements in the examples

* Fix a crash on SurfacePlotDrawLines/Points

* New translations (Enrico Nicoletto, Anders Jonsson, Wolfgang Stöggl,

Rafael Fontenelle, ÃœøрþÑÂûðò ÃÂøúþûøћ, et moi)

 

* During making of these changes the author (Jiri) was partially supported by

NSF grant DMS 1362337 and the Oklahoma State University

 

http://download.gnome.org/sources/genius/1.0/

ftp://ftp.5z.com/pub/genius/

http://www.jirka.org/genius.html

 

Genius is in Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, GARNOME, OpenSUSE, and probably other

distribution repositories, so check those. Usually you want to install two

packages: genius and gnome-genius. Of course, it will be a little bit before

this version hits those servers ...

 

Have fun,

 

Jiri

 

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Jiri (George) Lebl, http://math.okstate.edu/people/lebl/ or

http://www.jirka.org/

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