                                m4 Mathomatic
                                -------------

The executable named "mathomatic" is the best to run, however if you would
like functions, you need to run "rmath", which runs Mathomatic using GNU m4
as a macro pre-processor, allowing easy entry of standard math functions like
sqrt() and sin().  "rmath" and "matho" are shell scripts and are only known
to work with GNU software.  "rmath" runs "matho" with a readline wrapper, if
available.  "matho" runs m4 and pipes the output into Mathomatic.

To permanently install these program files on your system, type:

	sudo ./matho-install

Installation is not necessary to run Mathomatic.  "make m4install" is the
proper way to install these files from source.

Defined macros for functions and constants are listed in the file
"functions.m4".  Trigonometric functions (sin(), tan(), etc.) are implemented
as complex exponentials in Mathomatic:

 1-> sin(x)^2+cos(x)^2

      ((e#^(i#*x)) - (e#^(-1*i#*x)))       ((e#^(i#*x)) + (e#^(-1*i#*x)))
 #1: (------------------------------^2) + (------------------------------^2)
                  (2*i#)                                 2

 1-> simplify

 #1: 1

 1-> 

Mathomatic input is filtered by m4, so opening a shell or an editor doesn't
work when running m4 Mathomatic.

The "quit" and "exit" commands may have some delay.  You can use the EOF
character (control-D) to quit instantly, instead.

The read command currently doesn't use m4, so it can't process functions.
The way to read in text files with functions is to supply the filenames on
the command line:

	rmath filenames
