Printing and Plotting Values

When you give Maple a command, there is generally some form of
expression that is the output, or value, of the command.  The
"prettyprinted" output that you see is created by the Maple function
print.  There are other forms of output that you can specify.  These
functions are:

* lprint: print the expression in a linear format
* fortran: print the expression according to Fortran 77 syntax
* eqn: create an eqn version of the expression for the troff document processor
* latex: generate a LaTeX description for the expression

Here is an example to show the difference between print and lprint:

>  f := (a*b)/(c*d), c^d:
>  print(f);
a b   d
---, c
c d
>  lprint(f);
a*b/c/d   c**d

You can also plot expressions in Maple.  Two-dimensional plots are
generated using the plot command, which works both in tty- and
X-sessions.  To generate 3-D plots you use the plot3d command, which
only works in X-sessions.  To utilize the plotting features to the
fullest, you may need to understand the basics of writing Maple
procedures, but simple plots can be generated without this knowledge. 
The section "Plotting Functions" in the First Leaves document discusses
3-dimensional plotting of procedures; you can see help('plot') and
help('plot3d') for more details.