I've read the help page ?printf for the format codes many times over the years. I think that this is new:

The Z modifier, "%Zm" can be used to generate an alternate equivalent dotm representation that is used in communication with the GUI and in DocumentTools related functionality for the creation of XML content for .mw files.

Could someone show me an example of that?

The problem that I'm asking about here doesn't show in the MaplePrimes display of the worksheet below; you'll need to download the worksheet to see it. The problem is that the last subsection (which is currently empty) overlaps with the second-to-last subsection. It also overlapped when it was not empty. I just want to delete that last subsection, but nothing that I've tried works. This is not the first time that I've had overlapping subsections, but previously I've always been able to fix the problem by closing and re-opening the worksheet. That doesn't work in this case.

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Why won't this procedure Compile? All I get is a cryptic and ungrammatical error message.

    step:= proc(
          n::integer[4],
          XYZ::Matrix(datatype= float[8]),
          E::Vector(datatype=integer[4]), F::Vector(datatype=integer[4]),
          W::Matrix(datatype= float[8]), #3x2 scratch matrix
          mu::integer[4]
     )
     option autocompile;
     local
          i::integer[4], j::integer[4],
          ed::float[8],
          fd::float[8],
          p::float[8], t::float[8]       
     ;
          to mu do
               for i to n do
                    ed:= 0;  fd:= 0;
                    for j to 3 do
                          p:= XYZ[i,j];
                          t:= XYZ[E[i],j] - p;
                          ed:= ed+t^2;
                          W[j,1]:= t;
                          t:= XYZ[F[i],j] - p;
                          fd:= fd+t^2;
                          W[j,2]:= t
                    od;
                    ed:= sqrt(ed) + .01;  fd:= sqrt(fd) + .01;
                    for j to 3 do
                         XYZ[i,j]:= 0.995*XYZ[i,j] - 0.01*W[j,1]/ed + 0.02*W[j,2]/fd
                    od
               od
          od
     end proc;
Compiler:-Compile(step);

Error, (in Compiler:-Compile1) In memory compilation failed

I have seen several animated avatars on MaplePrimes. How is this done? I tried to make an animated GIF file my avatar, but it only shows the first frame. Here is the animation:

The following code is part of my attempt to answer the recent Question about the bifurcation of the map f:= x-> exp(x^2*(a-x)). Two very weird things are happening. They can be seen by applying trace to f. The first is that the input argument to f seems to be changed to a very large integer. The second is that for some real values of a and x, I get imaginary results from this obviously real-valued function. Why are these things happening?

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