Maple Worksheets are files with the extension mws which can be read only by Maple. If you want to see or play with a Maple worksheet, AND YOU ARE IN HH-3030 or HH-3056 (the Math/Stats Micro Labs), just click on the worksheet you want to see and Maple should launch automatically. If it doesn't, or if you are not in the Math/Stats Lab, you should save the worksheet to your computer account, start Maple by typing xmaple at the computer prompt, and file open to read it in.

Suppose you have just issued the command


   plot(sin(x),x=-2*Pi..2*Pi);

to Maple and want to include this graph in a TeX file. Here's what you do. Make up a name for the file which will contain this graph, say "fish01.ps". Now enter


   plotsetup(ps,plotoutput="fish01.ps");

at the Maple prompt and execute the plot command again. This time, instead of the plot appearing in your worksheet, the PosTScripT file "fish01.ps" will be created. Now you have captured the graph of sin(x) in a PostScript file which you can view with ghostview. To learn how to include "fish01.ps" in a TeX file called "myreport.tex", for example, click here.

Note: To get Maple to go back to displaying plots on screen, enter the command


   plotsetup(default);

In the case of a 3D Maple plot, you can spruce it up by setting some options, such as:


   with(plots):
   setoptions3d(axes=FRAME,orientation=[45,45],shading=ZHUE,style=PATCHCONTOUR);

and then exporting the plot to a postscript file.