Re: Help Browser
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg48523] Re: [mg48504] Help Browser
- From: "Bruce W. Colletti" <bcolletti at compuserve.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 04:49:43 -0400 (EDT)
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David Sounds good. To expand upon your idea, it'd be useful (at least for me) to have an option that would open the Help Browser to a specific point in a specified document. Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Subject: [mg48523] RE: [mg48504] Help Browser > > But in Version 4 Mathematica Add-Ons could be choosen from the Help menu, > and there were are a few other useful choices. These have now been > eliminated and replaced by a number of infrequently used items. > > I think WRI should restore the major tabs to the Help menu, at least the > Book and Add-Ons, with Built-In Functions the default. > > David Park > djmp at earthlink.net > http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ > > > > From: Bruce W. Colletti [mailto:bcolletti at compuserve.com] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > > The reply below (by Bruce Miller, Wolfram Tech Support) will help those who > want an easier Help Browser experience: how to make the AddOns tab the > default location when opening the Help Browser." > > As an aside, those who want to build their own help texts will like Bobby > Treat's recent posting on that matter. Check that out, too. > > Bruce > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <support at wolfram.com> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Subject: [mg48523] [mg48504] [TS 14312]--Re:[Phone 1495] Help Browser > > > > To make AddOns the default category in the Help Browser, edit the file > > Documentation/English/BrowserCategories.m > > and make the line > > HelpDirectoryListing[{"AddOns"}, False], > > the first one in the list of categories. Save the file, open > Mathematica, > > > > go to Help menu - Rebuild Help Index. After the index is rebuilt, > > AddOns should be the first (and default) category. > > > >