NAME

       cadabra - field-theory motivated computer algebra system

SYNOPSIS

       cadabra

DESCRIPTION

       Cadabra is a computer algebra system for the manipulation of tensorial expressions.

       The  output  of  cadabra is either plain text or UTF8 encoded Unicode (see the environment
       variables described below). The line-breaking properties of the latter are  used  to  wrap
       large  expressions  are reasonable points. In addition to the standard output, cadabra can
       print status information, which is wrapped in special <status>...</status> blocks.

OPTIONS

        --silent
              Disables all output, except for output generated by the @print algorithm.

        --loginput
              Copy the input into the log file.

        --input filename
              Read the indicated file as input before switching to console input.

        --prompt string
              Set the prompt of the interactive session to the indicated string.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       The following variables toggle various features  on  or  off,  depending  on  whether  the
       variable is set or not:

        CDB_PRINTSTAR
              Display a star to indicate products. Without this setting, a space is used.

        CDB_USE_UTF8
              Use  UTF8  encoding  for  output.  This  in particular will introduce non-breakable
              spaces to group objects together, as well as  zero-width  non-breakable  spaces  to
              prevent  line-breaks  after  brackets,  underscore  and  caret  symbols.  When this
              variable is not set, the output will be plain ASCII without any special symbols.

SEE ALSO

       xcadabra(1).

       See  the  web  page  at  http://www.aei.mpg.de/~peekas/cadabra/  for   binaries,   example
       calculations and the full manual.

AUTHORS

       Kasper Peeters <kasper.peeters@aei.mpg.de>

                                           Dec 14, 2006                                CADABRA(1)