Analyzer * Support Notes
Some Frequently Asked Questions
- Selecting a Function
- by clicking on it is necessary before many of the menu entries will be available.
- The Information Window
- may be opened by clicking on I to the left of the function. Much information including roots, extrema, iteration values, and integral values
are available from selectable menus at the top of each information window pane.
- Adding a New Function Box
- Select the function pane. Then either hit the keyboard chord
"Command-TAB" or press the corresponding button next to "New Eq."
- Adding a New Parameter
- Select the parameter pane. Then either hit the keyboard chord
"Command-TAB" or press the corresponding button next to "New Eq."
- Cluttered Pictures
- Clicking on the G to the left of each function box toggles display
of that function. The full icon bar can be used to hide the display of
components like higher derivatives, tangents, etc.
- Sums
- SUM(j: a,b: f(x,j)) will sum f(x,j) from j = a to j = b.
- Piecewise Functions
- if x > 0 then x*x else 3 is acceptable syntax.
- Iteration
- F1^o(10)(x) will iterate the function F1 10 times. Advanced Tasks must be turned on. This is done from the Tasks menu in Analyzer 3.2 and
from the Preferences panel beneath the Settings menu in
Analyzer 3.0.
- Special Characters
-
- Option-p will do pi.
- Option-5 does infinity.
- Option-w does a sigma.
- Option-, will do less than or equal.
- Option-. will do greater than or equal.
- Option-= will do unequal.
- Compatibility
- Analyzer 3.2 is troubled on PCI based Power Macs, but Analyzer 3.0 works
better. To run 3.2 on such Macs, modern memory manager must
be turned off. If you see jagged graphs or crashes on such a machine, this is
the first thing to check. On an 840AV, the disk cache must be turned off.
With Analyzer 3.0 on PCI Macs, you mostly just need to print with the
command Quick Print Equations instead of Print.
Location
In its own folder toplevel on all Macintoshes in the lab.
Printing
Analyzer* 3.2 is a well behaved printing application but does not
directly support color postscript printing. The interface is a little
unuusal in that after selecting print form the file menu, one must check
off boxes indicating what is to be printed, and one must arrange rectangles
representing these components to layout your customized page.
The Print command on the File menu of
Analyzer* 3.0 (on newer PCI based Macs) does not work properly
but Quick Print Equations does.
Documentation
The tutorial in the Analyzer* manual is an excellent place to start.
Pages 82 to 89 have a very useful summary.
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Last Update: October 2, 2000