Re: Mathematica documentation - for newest and older versions
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- Subject: [mg98852] Re: Mathematica documentation - for newest and older versions
- From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:08:00 -0400 (EDT)
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Options are always good, but actually I don't see how having a PDF would be better than having the doc centre. For starters, if you intend to read the PDF on your computer: the doc centre already has a Virtual Book built-in and if you like it on paper: this PDF is so huge that you're never going to print it (it's going to cost you at least $150). Cheers -- Sjoerd On Apr 20, 7:25 am, Bob F <deepyog... at gmail.com> wrote: > I just discovered that Wolfram now has all the documentation collected > in one place for older versions of Mathematica and webMathematica and > gridMathematica and Mathematica CalcCenter and Publicon, apparently in > English, Japanese, Chinese, French, and German, along with about 20 > packages. It is located athttp://reference.wolfram.com/siteindex.html > -- and there is even a PDF version of Stephen Wolfram's classic > "Mathematica Book" for version 5 athttp://reference.wolfram.com/legacy/v5= _2/Mathematica_V5_Book.zip > if you don't already have a copy (this is the 1464 page book that is > no longer in print and is a wonderful source of information IMHO). > > I have not noticed this before, but think it's a great resource that > people can use. Thanks very much Wolfram for putting all this into one > nice web site tree like this!!! > > Now if only the PDF versions of the Documentation Center content for > version 7.0 were done, life would be grand indeed!!!! (but they are > are on their way the web site says -- seehttp://www.wolfram.com/learningc= enter/tutorialcollection/ > to see what they are intending to have if you have not seen this > before. It appears that you will be able to order hardcopies (for a > fee) of all the 7.0 documentation as well as download free versions of > the PDF files for each of the sections. I am hoping that they also > have one complete PDF file that has everything in it to make searching > for things in the Mathematica documentation possible without the > Documentation Center, although I agree that not having the ability to > treat the documentation as a normal Mathematica notebook to play > around with, will be hard to get used to not having. But I think it > will provide a nice addition to the family of tools available to help > with learning and using Mathematica!! > > Kudo's to Wolfram for providing these sorts of tools!! > > -Bob