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Main Changes Scilab 2.7 -> 3.0
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- continue instruction added
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- [a(i,j),b(..),..]=foo(..) syntax is now handled
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- arpack algorithms for sparse matrix eigenvalues/eigenvectors computation added
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- Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm of Minpack used to define function lsqrsolve
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- New graphics mode improved
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- beta and legendre function added (thanks to B Pincon)
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- Scicos has been extended to handle non causal systems description (supported by RNTL)
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- Matlab to Scilab translator has been re-written, and extended to current Matlab syntax.
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- Better discontinuities handling in Scicos
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- More efficient number parsing (thanks to B Pincon)
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- More efficient 3D Zoom (thanks to E Segre)
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- Improved scipad, shortcuts, language handling, colorization, bug fixes.. (thanks to E Segre)
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- for loop variable is no more removed at the end of the loops
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- figure sizes are now taken into account in Postscript export
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- Windows GUI improved
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- Graphic windows refresh improved under Windows
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- Scilab has been adapated to IA64 architecture
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- Helvetica (Arial on Windows) fonts added (corresponding font identifiers are
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from 6 to 9) (thanks to B Pincon)
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- N dimensionnal matrices efficiency improved (thanks to B Pincon)
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- logical expressions shortcuts handled in if
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- cd, ls, clc, clf, tohome functions added
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- functions with no argument can be called without () if called as a command
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- returned arguments f1 f2 f3 of interp have been transposed
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Main Changes Scilab 2.6 -> 2.7
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Scilab group wants to thank the increasing number of people who have
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contributed to this new version of Scilab, with special mention to
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Anders Blomdell, St�phane Mottelet, Dan McMahill
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Ton van Overbeek, Bruno Pincon and Enrico Segre.
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Slicot based control routines (www.win.tue.nl/wgs/slicot.html)
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have been introduced with a special attention
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to identification functions, lyapunov, sylvester and riccati equation solvers.
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Interface with TeXmacs (www.texmacs.org) a high level scientific text editor.
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The editor allows you to write structured documents via a wysiwyg interface
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including Scilab sessions and results.
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An embedded text editor scipad derived from TkNotepad
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(www.mindspring.com/~joeja/programs.html) as been developped.
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C Code generation from Scicos discrete models
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Blocks defining DAE are now usable in Scicos.
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Statistic toolbox added (labostat).
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A new graphics version based on objects and entities has been developped
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(beta version). It allows to edit the properties of graphics
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objects. By default, the old graphics version is used. Tu use the new graphics
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version see the help of "graphics_entities".
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Linear algebra primitives now based on Lapack instead of Linpack/Eispack.
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Basic functions revised (thanks to B Pincon).
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stacksize use is no more restricted.
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Hypertext, xml based, online help.
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Binary Matlab file .mat loader (loadmatfile) added.
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Possibility to customize graphics window event handlers (seteventhandler).
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PVM interface now also works with Windows versions.
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edit_graph, a graph editor for Metanet toolbox, written in Scilab, replaces
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xmetanet. It works on both Unix and Windows.
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It is higly recommended to rebuild user's scilab functions libraries. This
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can be done as follow:
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predef(0);genlib('mylib','mylib_path',%t)
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gschur and gspec functions are now obsolete and replaced by schur and spec.
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Geci and the communication library have been removed. Use PVM interface instead.
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Metanet graph editor has been rewritten. Use edit_graph instead.
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man pages have to be written in HTML or better in XML but chapters
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written in the old ascii files are still handled.
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Scicos internal data structure have been changed. Automatic translation
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is made when old diagrams are loaded.
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Main Changes Scilab 2.5 -> 2.6
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