A new add-on for Maple V, the world's most advanced mathematics program, allows thousands of researchers in all technical disciplines to add an extra dimension to their published works.
     The IBM techexplorer Hypermedia Browser™ for Maple is the result of collaboration between Waterloo Maple Inc and IBM. Taking IBM's plug-in technology for browsing LaTeX documents on the Web, WMI has added an interactive mathematical capability. Maple users can now publish and explore published technical papers in a way that has never been achieved before.
     Now, researchers can use Maple V and simply export worksheets to the techexplorer for Maple format to electronically publish their work. They can even use the typesetting language they have been trained to use for technical publishing, LaTeX, and then add the mathematical meaning to expressions using the Maple language. The advantage of using this approach is publishing quality output for the mathematics, from files which are much smaller and quicker to download than the combination of HTML and GIF images.
     Anybody can use techexplorer for Maple to browse Maple documents on the Web. However, Maple users have the added advantage of being able to explore the mathematical content simply by clicking on an expression. This means that Maple users can work with published material from the Internet or Intranet, add it to their own work and readily publish their new work electronically.
     Maple users also now have the perfect vehicle for capturing and disseminating technical knowledge on internal Intranets, minimizing knowledge loss through staff turnover and duplication of work when similar projects are initiated.

Mohamed Bendame