Re: Yet another Mathematica docs whopper
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- Subject: [mg47106] Re: [mg47079] Yet another Mathematica docs whopper
- From: Yasvir Tesiram <yat at omrf.ouhsc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 03:55:49 -0500 (EST)
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Yes, it should really read,
.......AspectRatio is an option for Graphics
Options[Show] will return an empty list. In which case a little
deduction that Show relates to Graphics would have eventually lead you
to type in Options[Graphics]. I understand it can be infuriating
sometimes. But of course there must be a balance between how much
appears in a manual. Being concise is often mistaken for incomplete
yada yada yada...
Something such as this is probably best sent to Wolfram. One thing they
do do well is respond, and having paid a large amount of money you are
entitled to use their service.
Cheerful regards
Yas
On Mar 25, 2004, at 4:48 AM, J Krugman wrote:
> I've posted about the poor quality of Mathematica's documentation
> before, and received several e-mails challenging my claim that this
> documentation is awash in errors and woefully incomplete. Well,
> for those who doubt, here's the latest example I just bumped into:
>
> In[1]:= ??AspectRatio
> AspectRatio is an option for Show and related functions which
> specifies the
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ratio of height to width for a plot.
>
> Attributes[AspectRatio] = {Protected}
>
> In[2]:= SetOptions[Show, AspectRatio->Automatic];
>
> SetOptions::optnf: AspectRatio is not a known option for Show.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Faced with this sort of nonsense, what is a user to do?
>
> I am furious, because I spend an unreasonable amount of time
> resolving inadequacies like this one in the Mathematica documentation.
> Considering the exorbitant sum we paid for Mathematica, I expect
> something much better documented than this.
>
> jill
>
> --
> To s&e^n]d me m~a}i]l r%e*m?o\v[e bit from my a|d)d:r{e:s]s.
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- Yet another Mathematica docs whopper