Re: Transition to Wolfram Workbench
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- Subject: [mg107831] Re: Transition to Wolfram Workbench
- From: Hannes Kessler <HannesKessler at hushmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:51:50 -0500 (EST)
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Hi Albert, I tried to change the help system to internet explorer (Window- >Preferences->General->Webbrowser->Use external Web browsers->Internet explorer) but nothing changed: All help pages still open in the internal browser window with a tiny font. I am working under Windows 7. Best regards, Hannes Kessler On 27 Feb., 09:15, Albert Retey <a... at gmx-topmail.de> wrote: > Hi, > > > I tried to create some test documentation using the workbench but > > failed to use the documentation tools palette when Mathematica was > > called because some of its elements were hidden and I could not > > increase the size of the palette window. In the workbench I had > > problems using the help system as the font size is really tiny, but no > > possibility to change it. > > it sounds like you are using either a non standard setup, since all > looks very reasonable on the systems I have been using. One thing you > can try is to configure the eclipse help system to use an external web > browser, you have then all the possibilities to change the appearance of > the help content within the web browser of your choice. As for the > documentation tools palette you could try to manipulate the > corresponding notebooks magnification to make everything fit within the > window with something like: > > SetOptions[Notebooks[][[1]], Magnification -> 1] > > where of course you would have to check at which position the > DocumentationTools-Palette appears in your case... > > > I am afraid such elementary difficulties > > will discourage newcomers like me to use the workbench. > > I am not trying to convince anyone to use the workbench, as I said, IMHO > it only adds value for certain special tasks and it needs some effort to > get used to it _and_ it might well have its deficiencies. Unfortunatly > at this time there isn't really an alternative to it when you want to > create documentation for the Documentation Center, although there are > some recipes about how you can create documentation for the > documentation center without using the workbench and wolframs > documentation tools. But these also have their deficiencies and also > need some effort to get decent results. > > hth, > > albert