Scilab-2.7 announcement

[Serge Steer]

Scilab Group announces the release of Scilab-2.7
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What is new ?
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Slicot based control routines (www.win.tue.nl/wgs/slicot.html)
have been introduced with a special attention
to identification functions, lyapunov, sylvester and riccati equation solvers.

Interface with TeXmacs (www.texmacs.org) a high level scientific text editor.
The editor allows you to write structured documents via a WYSIWYG interface
including Scilab sessions and results.

An embedded text editor scipad derived from TkNotepad
(www.mindspring.com/~joeja/programs.html) as been developped.

C Code generation from Scicos discrete models.
Blocks defining DAE are now usable in Scicos.

Statistic toolbox added (labostat).

A new graphics version based on objects and entities has been developped
(beta version). It allows to edit the properties of graphics
objects. By default, the old graphics version is used. Tu use the new graphics
version see the help of "graphics_entities".

edit_graph(), a graph editor for Metanet toolbox, written in Scilab, replaces
xmetanet. It works on both Unix and Windows.

Others improvements
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Linear algebra primitives now based on Lapack instead of Linpack/Eispack.

Basic functions revised (thanks to B Pincon).

stacksize() use is no more restricted.

Hypertext, xml based, online help.

Binary Matlab file .mat loader (loadmatfile()) added.

Possibility to customize graphics window event handlers (seteventhandler()).

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Have fun with Scilab!

Scilab Project.

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Serge Steer
Inria Rocquencourt
BP 105 78153 Le Chesnay CEDEX
email:Serge...@inria.fr
fax:(33) 01 39 63 57 86