Re: Book or Manual for 6?
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- Subject: [mg78913] Re: Book or Manual for 6?
- From: congruentialuminaire at yahoo.com
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:27:24 -0400 (EDT)
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I still use my printed Mathematica V4 book a lot. I saw today that Amazon has a printed V5 book for more than $250! But I guess that most of these comments could be addressed by having a good 'index' of links to guide someone through the material. This is one of the dreams of electronic documentation, namely that there can be many 'books' or paths through the material. Of course and unfortunately, the number of successful efforts of this is miniscule. I like to print sections from the V5 Help Browser. These work great on the train (or the plane). Alas I am killing tree to do this. And I have some major issues with the search and index function in the Help Browser. Over time my ability to be successful on first attempt has improved, but I frequently cannot find what I suspect and is almost always there. Regards..Roger W. On Jun 27, 2:52 am, "David Park" <djmp... at comcast.net> wrote: > At my age I can sympathize with the established style of reading books. But > I would like to suggest that you seriously consider getting a nice laptop > <snipped/>