Ginsh: ?? does not list all functions

Peter Gawthrop P.Gawthrop at eng.gla.ac.uk
Mon May 5 17:57:57 CEST 2003


I am using the ginac-tools package in the debian testing
distribution. 

Ginsh does not list print_latex or print_csrc in response to ??. This
is important to me as I use this feature to generate wrapper function
for use with Octave (www.octave.org).

Ginsh gives the following:

peterg at tiree:peterg$ ginsh
ginsh - GiNaC Interactive Shell (GiNaC V1.1.0)
  __,  _______  Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz,
 (__) *       | Germany.  This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
  ._) i N a C | You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
<-------------' For details type `warranty;'.

Type ?? for a list of help topics.
> ??
Available help topics:
Li2, Li3, Order, acos, acosh, asin, asinh, atan, atan2, atanh, beta, binomial, charpoly, coeff, collect, collect_common_factors, collect_distributed, content, cos, cosh, decomp_rational, degree, denom, determinant, diag, diff, divide, eval, evalf, evalm, exp, expand, factorial, find, gcd, has, inverse, is, lcm, lcoeff, ldegree, lgamma, log, lsolve, map, match, nops, normal, numer, numer_denom, op, operators, power, prem, primpart, psi, quo, rem, series, sin, sinh, sprem, sqrfree, sqrt, subs, tan, tanh, tcoeff, tgamma, time, trace, transpose, unassign, unit, zeta
To get help for a certain topic, type ?topic
> ?print_latex
parse error, unexpected T_PRINTLATEX, expecting T_SYMBOL or T_TIME or '?' at print_latex
> print_latex((y+z)^(-2));
\frac{1}{{(z+y)}^{2}}
> 

  Peter.

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