Re: Documentation Center (v6): do-it-yourself Mathematica Book
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- Subject: [mg79808] Re: Documentation Center (v6): do-it-yourself Mathematica Book
- From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 04:52:15 -0400 (EDT)
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thomas wrote: > Many users on this discussion group have complained about the absence > of "The Mathematica Book" in the new Documentation Center; mainly > because of a missing linear introductory text of Mathematica which was > present in the old Help system. > > I completely agree. However, I noticed that the various tutorial files > in the Documentation center contain the text of "The Book". What is > really missing is the outline. So I decided to build my own do-it- > yourself version of the book. It turned out to be quite simple, thanks > to the ingenious naming rules of the tutorial files (all main chapter > TOC files end with "...Overview.nb".) > > The following code opens a new notebook, and prints a collection of > hyperlinks to Documentation Center tutorials, laid out in the order of > the good old Mathematica book. Simply execute the code and save the > notebook for your own use. There are 11 chapters that I could not find > in "The Mathematica Book" of the v5.2 Help system, I integrated them > in an order that seemed most appropriate to me. The are marked by > "New: ". > > Note that this link collection does not contain links to all > tutorials. For example, no links to the "Manipulate" tutorials exist. > Neither are the packages represented. > > Also be warned that the code opens help files to extract hyperlinks > for incorporation in "The Book", and closes them again. Lots of > windows appearing and disappearing on the screen. There will also be > warnings and a "beeps" popping up because of a mismatch in cell > styles, which you can ignore. Everything works fine despite the > mismatch. At the end, just close the "Why the beep" dialog box. > > Here is the code that you need to execute to build your own book in > v6.0.x: > > This works and looks very, very useful! David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk