Glitch in online documentation system (a minor bug, actually?)
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- Subject: [mg90353] Glitch in online documentation system (a minor bug, actually?)
- From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 05:05:42 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Stanford University
If I open a single Mathematica notebook window, then open a Help window such as a function definition or tutorial, the opened Help window does not appear in the list of open windows at the bottom of the Mathematica Window menu -- I can't toggle back and forth between the two windows using that menu. If I then open a _second_ randomly chosen notebook (keeping the first one open), all three windows now are listed at the bottom of the Window menu. And if I close the second notebook, both the first notebook and the Help window remain listed at the bottom of the Window menu. But if I close the Help window and re-open a new Help window, it again doesn't show up. MacBook, OS 10.4.11, Mathematica 6.0.3.0. ------------------ [And while we're on this topic, any one-hand keyboard way to toggle between a notebook window and an opened Help window?] [Or alternatively, and better, what's the easiest and most effective way to capture individual Help windows (function definitions, tutorials, etc) into PDF files -- preferably with some magnification?] [The point to doing the latter is that I can then build up and annotate my own "online" help as a PDF document; have a notebook open in Mathematica; keep a selected page in the PDF Help document open in Acrobat; and toggle back and forth between them instantaneously by typing Cmd-Tab with my "keyboard hand" (which on a Mac toggles instantly between the two most recently used applications).]