Augmenting Mathematica documentation - a serious proposal
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- Subject: [mg115264] Augmenting Mathematica documentation - a serious proposal
- From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 02:02:01 -0500 (EST)
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On 04/01/2011 09:21, telefunkenvf14 wrote: > > Now I'm intrigued... Can we make a wiki version?!? (Guessing WRI would > not be happy with this---umm...copy rights?) > > -RG > I think a set of extra information about Mathematica functions would be a really valuable resource, and could include contributions from many people. Copyright needn't be an issue if we did it by programmatically, inserting a big "MORE INFORMATION" dropdown box at the start of a standard documentation notebook. This could all-but eliminate a whole range of problems that beginner users encounter, such as arr=expr//MatrixForm The dropdown would supply a choice of links to websites that contained additional information for that particular function. Contributors would have to supply their web address to a central list, which would then be used by the installation program. I would be willing to set this up if enough people show interest (and WRI don't raise serious objections :) ). David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk