Re: addons in Mathematica 6???
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- Subject: [mg83488] Re: addons in Mathematica 6???
- From: "Nasser Abbasi" <nma at 12000.org>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:00:54 -0500 (EST)
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hi David: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net> wrote in message news:fhu8jh$7ot$1 at smc.vnet.net... > Use Menu, Help, Documentation Center. Towards the bottom right of the page > you should see an Installed Add-Ons link. Click that and you should see > your > packages. > > If you don't see your packages it is probably because you don't have them > in > your private Mathematica/Applications folder. Evaluate $BaseDirectory or > $UserBaseDirectory to find that folder and move the packages there. > > The new Documentation Center system generally suffers from Index pages > that > are not dense enough. For a given grouping of commands they often show > only > the most common ones and then the user has to click to another index page > to > obtain a full list. WRI could organize the index pages to have more > Function > links on them, perhaps making the more common ones slightly more > prominant. > > It would also be nice if the Documentation Center had an Index page for > all > the standard packages that WRI supplies with Mathematica. And as long as > the > old Help Browser is around it would be nice if the Help menu had an entry > to > directly bring it up instead of having to detour through the Documentation > Center. > > -- > David Park > djmpark at comcast.net > http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/ > I actually find Wolfram own index site very useful to find things. http://reference.wolfram.com/alphaindex/A.html It is amazing what one finds there by just looking at it. I usually brows the above site during one of my coffee breaks just for fun :) Nasser