Automatic indexing of modules
- To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg10348] Automatic indexing of modules
- From: Tom Burton <tburton@cts.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 23:41:07 -0500
I've been prototyping and documenting a commercial software product in Mathematica for almost two years. The prototype has grown to hundreds of modules spread over about a dozen notebooks. Despite my notebooks' impeccable organization (^_^), the principal client would like a faster way to locate a specific module in the notebooks, given the name of the module. (Now that he is accustomed to v3's typesetting and StandardForm, the yield in InputForm of "??" doesn't satisfy him. Besides, surrounding the actual source code are theoretical developments, explanations, module tests, etc.) So he has asked for a hyperlink index of all modules. I suppose that programming the kernal to prepare an hyperlink index of all modules defined within Initialization Cells would be straightforward, although a neat job might take some time. A quick look in MathSource yielded me nothing. Has anyone reading this group done a similar task or know of anything relevant--perhaps on MathSource, despite what I just alledged? If not, suppose that I do the work. Would anyone be interested in the result? Thanks. Thomas E. Burton 353 Sanford Road Brahea Consulting Encinitas CA 92024-1508 tburton@cts.com 760/436-7436