file mbe2toc.txt contains the table of contents for Maxima by Example, Chapter 2: Plots, Files, Read, Write, and Fit Edwin L Woollett, October, Jan. 6, 2014 woollett@charter.net http://www.csulb.edu/~woollett 2.1 Introduction to plot2d 2.1.1 First Steps with plot2d 2.1.2 Parametric Plots 2.1.3 Can We Draw a Circle? 2.1.4 Line Width and Color Controls 2.1.5 Discrete Data Plots: Point Size, Color, and Type Control 2.1.6 More gnuplot_preamble Options 2.1.7 Creating Various Kinds of Graphics Files using plot2d 2.1.8 Using qplot for Quick Plots of One or More Functions 2.1.9 Plot of a Discontinuous Function 2.2 Working with Files Using the Package mfiles.mac 2.2.1 Check File Existence with file_search or probe_file 2.2.2 Check for File Existence using ls or dir 2.2.3 Type of File, Number of Lines, Number of Characters 2.2.4 Print All or Some Lines of a File to the Console 2.2.5 Rename a File using rename_file 2.2.6 Delete a File with delete_file 2.2.7 Copy a File using copy_file 2.2.8 Change the File Type using file_convert 2.2.9 Breaking File Lines with pbreak_lines or pbreak() 2.2.10 Search Text Lines for Strings with search_file 2.2.11 Search for a Text String in Multiple Files with search_mfiles 2.2.12 Replace Text in File with ftext_replace 2.2.13 Email Reply Format using reply_to 2.2.14 Reading a Data File with read_data 2.2.15 File Lines to List of Strings using read_text 2.2.16 Writing Data to a Data File One Line at a Time using with_stdout 2.2.17 Creating a Data File from a Nested List using write_data 2.3 Least Squares Fit to Experimental Data 2.3.1 Maxima and Least Squares Fits: lsquares_estimates 2.3.2 Syntax of lsquares_estimates 2.3.3 Coffee Cooling Model 2.3.4 Experiment Data for Coffee Cooling 2.3.5 Least Squares Fit of Coffee Cooling Data