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| Gavin Scott |
 Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 4:31 pm |
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I wrote:
Quote: Dave Seaman <dseaman@no.such.host> wrote:
I have been able to find things by using the search box. My number one
wish is for tabbed browsing.
Some sort of history would be nice, as I find myself getting into loops
as A leads to B then to C then to D which has a link to A, and since A,
B, C, and D all have similar names I'm not always sure whether I've seen
A already.
This turns out to be there. In the Documentation Center window,
between the back and forward buttons is a very narrow area with up
and down indicators. If you click on this then you get the current
history of pages viewed as a pop-up and you can click to move around
in the list.
Quote: The "Tutorials" are interesting, yet there seems to be no way to find
out what tutorial documents exist short of having them suggested to you
because you visited a page that links to them.
If you go to ...\Documentation\English\System you'll find a Guides
and a Tutorials folder which contain .nb files for each one. There
are about 645 Tutorials and 345 Guides. Opening them from a Windows
Explorer opens them as regular notebooks, but the links therein take
you into the Documentation Center.
Presumably all these are reachable from other pages in the documentation,
but it sure would be nice to have them organized into categories in a
Guide and Tutorial specific section off the main documentation page.
This would go a long way towards replacing the missing "book" parts of
the now-defunct The Mathematica Book.
Quote: I have found the search results to be surprisingly useless when looking
for anything in the way of general information. You typically get a
list of low-level function documentation pages.
Search continues to be almost useless. Problems are mainly related
to the ranking of the results where more specific (and less useful)
results typically swamp more general results (such as in guides or
tutorials) that might be more useful. I think the search should give
priority to certain classes of results like these.
Also the titles of help documents don't seem to be indexed (sheesh).
Take for example something I'd been trying to find for some time:
http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/note/SomeNotesOnInternalImplementation.html
which is not retrievable by searching for "Implementation". The only
way I found that it did actually exist was via a link on the page for
Random.
Among all the amazingly cool things in Mathematica 6, it's unfortunate
that they had to make the documentation so difficult to use. Yes, the
actual detailed documentation pages are actually excellent and much
improved, but the whole contents and indexing system falls down rather
badly.
I would like to see:
*) A Getting Started section that takes the new user through the program
the way the first chapters of the book used to.
*) An organized listing of Guides and Tutorials.
*) A search mechanism that indexes all of the document contents (titles
etc.) and which prioritizes higher level results (Guides/Tutorials)
over low level matches (documentation for some other function that
just happens to use the function of interest).
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