Re: Adding hyperlinks to help browser files in function::usage
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- Subject: [mg47428] Re: Adding hyperlinks to help browser files in function::usage
- From: drbob at bigfoot.com (Bobby R. Treat)
- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 04:44:05 -0400 (EDT)
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Wolfram clearly doesn't want us to know such tricks, my friend. It's a bit like that "tree of the knowledge of good and evil", maybe. Bobby "J. McKenzie Alexander" <jalex at lse.ac.uk> wrote in message news:<c582lt$nos$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > I have a question regarding the interaction between usage notes for > user-defined functions and custom help documents written for inclusion > in the Mathematica help browser. > > As you all know, the usage notes for a built-in function like Abs have > the form > > "Abs[z] gives the absolute value of the real or complex number z. > More..." > > where the "More..." is a hyperlink that, when clicked on, takes you to > the appropriate help page. > > Looking at the actual definition of Abs::usage, though, reveals that > the hyperlink isn't part of the usage notes. In > /Applications/Mathematica > 5.0.app/SystemFiles/Kernel/TextResources/English/Usage.m (I'm running > OS X) it is defined as: > > Abs::usage = "Abs[z] gives the absolute value of the real or complex > number z."; > > So the hyperlink is being added automatically some way. How? And what > is the "proper" way to get this behaviour for the usage notes of > functions I define in packages I write? > > After a lot of poking around, the only solution I've found (which is > hardly elegant) is to do the following. Assuming that HexGraph.nb is > installed under "Add-Ons & Links" in the help browser, define > > HexGraph::usage="HexGraph[cols, rows] creates a hexagonal lattice > having cols 'columns' and rows 'rows'. Setting the option > EqualColumnHeights->False indicates that only odd numbered columns > should have the specified number of rows. > \!\(\*ButtonBox[\(More?\),ButtonStyle->\"AddOnsLink\",ButtonData: > >\"HexGraph\"]\)"; > > I suspect, though, given the definition of Abs::usage, that adding the > hyperlink can be automated in some way when the help files are built or > installed in the browser. > > Cheers, > > Jason