The following is a description of what happens when you export the worksheet:

Displayed mathematics is translated into LaTeX 2e, using line-breaking algorithms to conform to the document width requested by the user.

Hidden content is not exported.

Images and sketches are not exported.

Maple character styles are mapped directly onto LaTeX 2e macro calls.

Maple paragraph styles are mapped onto LaTeX environments.

Maple section headings are mapped on LaTeX sections and subsections as required.

Maple spreadsheets are converted to LaTeX tables.

Superscript and subscripts are exported correctly.

Processing

The Maple worksheet is processed line by line and written to a file.

Maple plots are rewritten in separate postscript files and links to those files are inserted in the LaTeX document.

The resulting text file is a LaTeX document that can be presented in many different formats simply by selecting different LaTeX document classes and parameters.

In the initial document, Maple uses a standard LaTeX style known as article.

Some page numbering options specified in the Maple worksheet are applied to the LaTeX document. These include the following:

Page numbering on or off

Starting number

Numbering of the first page

Style of the page numbers

Samples of these style definitions are included near the end of the maplestd2e.sty file.

For example, the paragraph style for Normal and Title paragraph styles are defined as follows:

Character styles generally take the following form: