Contents

• Contents
• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 What is Scilab
  • 1.2 Software Organization
  • 1.3 Installing Scilab. System Requirements
  • 1.4 Documentation
  • 1.5 Scilab at a Glance. A Tutorial
    • 1.5.1 Getting Started
    • 1.5.2 Editing a command line
    • 1.5.3 Buttons
    • 1.5.4 Customizing your Scilab
    • 1.5.5 Sample Session for Beginners
• 2. Data Types
  • 2.1 Special Constants
  • 2.2 Constant Matrices
  • 2.3 Matrices of Character Strings
  • 2.4 Polynomials and Polynomial Matrices
    • 2.4.1 Rational polynomial simplification
  • 2.5 Boolean Matrices
  • 2.6 Lists
  • 2.7 Linear system representation
  • 2.8 Functions (Macros)
  • 2.9 Libraries
  • 2.10 Objects
  • 2.11 Matrix Operations
  • 2.12 Indexing
    • 2.12.1 Indexing in matrices
    • 2.12.2 Indexing in lists
• 3. Programming
  • 3.1 Programming Tools
    • 3.1.1 Comparison Operators
    • 3.1.2 Loops
    • 3.1.3 Conditionals
  • 3.2 Defining and Using Functions
    • 3.2.1 Function Structure
    • 3.2.2 Loading Functions
    • 3.2.3 Global and Local Variables
    • 3.2.4 Special Function Commands
  • 3.3 Definition of Operations on New Data Types
  • 3.4 Debbuging
• 4. Basic Primitives
  • 4.1 The Environment and Input/Output
    • 4.1.1 The Environment
    • 4.1.2 Startup Commands by the User
    • 4.1.3 Input and Output
  • 4.2 Help
  • 4.3 Useful functions
  • 4.4 Nonlinear Calculation
    • 4.4.1 Nonlinear Primitives
    • 4.4.2 Argument functions
  • 4.5 XWindow Dialog
• 5. Graphics
  • 5.1 The Graphics Window
  • 5.2 The Media
  • 5.3 Global Parameters of a Plot
  • 5.4 2D Plotting
    • 5.4.1 Basic 2D Plotting
    • 5.4.2 Captions and Presentation
    • 5.4.3 Specialized 2D Plottings
    • 5.4.4 Plotting Some Geometric Figures
    • 5.4.5 Writting by Plotting
    • 5.4.6 Some Classical Graphics for Automatic Control
    • 5.4.7 Miscellaneous
  • 5.5 3D Plotting
    • 5.5.1 Generic 3D Plotting
    • 5.5.2 Specialized 3D Plotting
    • 5.5.3 Mixing 2D and 3D graphics
    • 5.5.4 Sub-windows
    • 5.5.5 A Set of Figures
  • 5.6 Printing and Inserting Scilab Graphics in L^ATEX
    • 5.6.1 Window to Paper
    • 5.6.2 Creating a Postscript File
    • 5.6.3 Including a Postscript File in L^ATEX
    • 5.6.4 Postscript by Using Xfig
    • 5.6.5 Encapsulated Postscript Files
• 6. Interfacing C or Fortran programs
  • 6.1 Using dynamic link
    • 6.1.1 Dynamic link
    • 6.1.2 Calling a dynamically linked program
  • 6.2 Interface programs
    • 6.2.1 Building an interface program
    • 6.2.2 Example
    • 6.2.3 addinter command
  • 6.3 Intersci
    • 6.3.1 Using Intersci
  • 6.4 The routines/default directory
    • 6.4.1 Argument functions
  • 6.5 Maple to Scilab Interface
  • 6.6 Maple2scilab
    • 6.6.1 Simple Scalar Example
    • 6.6.2 Matrix Example
• 7. Demo session
• 8. System interconnexion
• 9. Converting Scilab functions to Fortran
  • 9.1 Converting Scilab Functions to Fortran Routines
• List of Figures
• Index