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4.10 The Rosetta document 

The document Rosetta.tex, of Tim Daly et al., takes again and extends a comparative study of various CAS made by Michael Wester et al.

He/it is available under several forms on the Rosetta CD-ROM for Windows: dvi, pdf and html. The first two forms are provided in two versions, one adapted to the screen, the other adapted to printing. The version for screen can be displayed from the button Doc Ros écr. of the toolbar Alg\Calfor01 ( ../../../icones/rosetta/calfor01.gif ) of the group of toolbars Alg-1. The version adapted to printing can be displayed with the button Doc Ros A4 (cf. sec. 3.3.2). The form html is available in multi-files version.

Every CAS having its own syntax, it is very easy to make some mistakes and to mix instructions of various languages, as soon as one tries to compare them. The Rosetta document is a very substantial help, it is therefore important to be able to consult it conveniently.

A possibility is to go into a virgin virtual desktop (cf. sec. 4.9), to display the Rosetta document with Gsview in its version adapted to the screen (by opening the pull down list in the upper right corner of the navigator's window and by clicking on the element Gsview of the list, cf. sec.3.3.2), then to open entirely the index in the navigator by clicking on the ../../../images/navig/nvtblova.gif button. For example, to get the various ways to note the infinity, one has just to click on the line Infinity in the navigator  :
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A very useful complement is obtained by searching word in the complete document. The initialization of search with Gsview being slow, it is convenient to launch a search on any word when beginning a session, for example solve. Next searches are instantaneous:
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