[genius] Update help file a tiny bit
- From: Jiri (George) Lebl <jirka src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [genius] Update help file a tiny bit
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:21:19 +0000 (UTC)
commit ee4d601c76315392d4c98fc76d018ed55816a575
Author: Jiri (George) Lebl <jiri lebl gmail com>
Date: Thu Oct 14 19:21:08 2021 -0500
Update help file a tiny bit
help/C/genius.xml | 34 ++++++++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/help/C/genius.xml b/help/C/genius.xml
index 84afcdb3..eac4ff4c 100644
--- a/help/C/genius.xml
+++ b/help/C/genius.xml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY app "<application>Genius Mathematics Tool</application>">
<!ENTITY appname "Genius">
- <!ENTITY appversion "1.0.26">
- <!ENTITY date "December 2020">
+ <!ENTITY appversion "1.0.27">
+ <!ENTITY date "October 2021">
<!ENTITY legal SYSTEM "legal.xml">
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
<title>&appname; Manual</title>
<copyright>
- <year>1997-2020</year>
+ <year>1997-2021</year>
<holder>Jiří (George) Lebl</holder>
</copyright>
<copyright>
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
<surname>Lebl</surname>
<affiliation>
<orgname>Oklahoma State University</orgname>
- <address> <email>jirka 5z com</email> </address>
+ <address> <email>jiri lebl gmail com</email> </address>
</affiliation>
</author>
<author>
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
<date>August 2004</date>
<revdescription>
<para role="author">Jiri (George) Lebl
- <email>jirka 5z com</email>
+ <email>jiri lebl gmail com</email>
</para>
</revdescription>
</revision>
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@
<date>&date;</date>
<revdescription>
<para role="author">Jiri (George) Lebl
- <email>jirka 5z com</email>
+ <email>jiri lebl gmail com</email>
</para>
</revdescription>
</revision>
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
application or this manual, please visit the
<ulink url="http://www.jirka.org/genius.html" type="http">Genius
Web page</ulink>
- or email me at <email>jirka 5z com</email>.
+ or email me at <email>jiri lebl gmail com</email>.
</para>
<!-- Translators may also add here feedback address for translations -->
</legalnotice>
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ do <userinput>cd directory</userinput> as in the UNIX command shell.
<para>
If you wish to enter several more complicated commands, or perhaps write a complicated
function using the <link linkend="genius-gel">GEL</link> language, you can create a new
- program.
+ program; really just a file with many commands.
</para>
<para>
To start writing a new program, choose
@@ -500,10 +500,11 @@ in a separate tab. This is equivalent to the <command>load</command> command.
<sect1 id="genius-line-plots">
<title>Line Plots</title>
<para>
- To graph real valued functions of one variable open the <guilabel>Create Plot</guilabel>
+ To graph real-valued functions of one variable, open the <guilabel>Create Plot</guilabel>
window. You can also use the
<link linkend="gel-function-LinePlot"><function>LinePlot</function></link> function
- on the command line (see its documentation).
+ on the command line (see its documentation). And by the words line plot, we mean plots in the plane,
+ as opposed to surface plots, which are in three dimensions.
</para>
<para>
Once you click the <guilabel>Plot</guilabel> button, a window opens up with some notebooks in it.
@@ -1168,14 +1169,15 @@ this should be second nature. However genius can let you pretend it is a
terminator to some degree. If a <literal>;</literal> is found at the end of a parenthesis or a block,
genius will append a null to it as if you would have written
<userinput>;null</userinput>.
-This is useful in case you do not want to return a value from say a loop,
-or if you handle the return differently. Note that it will slightly slow down
-the code if it is executed too often as there is one more operator involved.
+This is useful in case you do not want to return a value from a loop,
+or if you handle the return differently.
</para>
<para>
- If you are typing expressions in a program you do not have to add a semicolon. In this case
- genius will simply print the return value whenever it executes the expression. However, do
note that if you are defining a
- function, the body of the function is a single expression.
+ If you are typing expressions in a program file you do not have to add a semicolon. In this
case
+ genius will simply print the return value whenever it executes the expression. This is the same
+ as when typing on the command line. However, do note that if you are defining a
+ function, the body of the function is a single expression. Usually, therefore, if a function
body is
+ long, you will need to enclose it in parentheses.
</para>
</sect1>
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