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Re: Yet another Mathematica docs whopper

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• Subject: [mg47173] Re: Yet another Mathematica docs whopper
• From: drbob at bigfoot.com (Bobby R. Treat)
• Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 00:08:10 -0500 (EST)
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That's a lot of work, and you get a similar (more comprehensive)
result by searching at the online Documentation center.

On the other hand, it's TOO comprehensive, throwing up hundreds of
duplicated articles, items from packages I don't own, et cetera. Type
in "Euler equations" and try finding the article on
Calculus`VariationalMethods`, which includes a function called
EulerEquations. (Sure, if I already KNEW that...)

Bobby

Harold.Noffke at wpafb.af.mil (Harold Noffke) wrote in message news:<c4388p$egq$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> David:
> 
> Re: "It would be nice if it had a search engine."
> 
> I think that would be nice, too.  I've been able to take a small step
> in that direction by copying most of the individual notebooks in the
> Ver. 5.0.1 MainBook Windows folder into a single large MainBook.nb
> file which can be searched fairly rapidly for phrases or expressions I
> want to find, but which are not indexed by the Help Browser.  I can
> also highlight and bookmark various topics with ad-hoc search strings
> (+++, ///, etc.), and insert notes and text clips from this newsgroup.
> 
> My MainBook.nb file size is 40MB.
> 
> Regards,
> Harold