How can one add something that will show up as < in the Subject line of a posting here?

The goal is to have it show up properly both at the top of the post itself as well as in the "Recent comments" right-sidebar.

Regardless of whether the "Input format" is "Plain Text" or one of the HTML variants, a literal, typed < shows up as blank in the final displayed Subject field. Ie, it gets treated as HTML.

But with Input format as HTML, a literal, typed < displays as a nicely marked up < symbol in the Subject field but shows as raw source in the "Recent comments" field.

Is there any way to enter < symbols in the Subject line so that they appear properly in both locations?

Why not put the entire Maple help-system online? I mean, as html. No served .mw or plugins. No huge .pdf downloads. Just the goods, one page per routine, that load and render fast for every half-decent browser. No registration and login would be nice too. Consider the competition's sites, here and here. Wouldn't that be another...

There's an interesting set of posts on comp.soft-sys.math.maple about post-processing .eps plot output from Maple. Here's a link via Google Groups. The author's ideas revolve mostly about processing tickmarks and subtickmarks and replacing them with symbols. The claim is made that it's harder (or impossible) to do some things in Maple for .eps output that are possible in Mathematica or Matlab. I haven't yet tried or looked hard at the posted code, or verified the claim.

A new version of Plouffe's Inverter was announced by its author today in the usenet group comp.soft-sys.math.maple . That usenet posting gave this link to maple code for the inverter.

It also said this, "As usual, I would like to mention that this program is FREE and can be distributed at will, I just wish that the source is mentioned. Simon Plouffe"

The functionality to extend and augment the context-sensitive menus is quite nice. I especially like the submodule ContextMenu:-Test whose exports allow one to programmatically test the results and new menus.

But what about installing menus with items whose type checks relate to locals?

Here's a simple example.

> newCM:=ContextMenu:-New():
> newCM[Entries][Add]("local to global", "convert(%EXPR,`global`)", `local`):
> newCM[Entries...