Re: Augmenting Mathematica documentation - a serious proposal
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- Subject: [mg115349] Re: Augmenting Mathematica documentation - a serious proposal
- From: "Ingolf Dahl" <ingolf.dahl at telia.com>
- Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 03:39:55 -0500 (EST)
Of course Mathematica-users Wiki at http://www.mathematica-users.org is available as resource and place for this kind of information. I am doing my best to keep this site free from spam. In connection to this I also want to inform that my SetFaceAndFont palette contains four buttons for searching for help: One "Search" button which searches wolfram.com. One "MG" button, which searches MathGroup and Mathematica-users Wiki. One "GC" button, which performs a Google Code search for published Mathematica code containing the selected command/commands. One "Web" button, which performs a general Google search. Maybe someone could find this useful. The SetFaceAndFont palette can be downloaded from http://www.familydahl.se/mathematica Best regards Ingolf Dahl ingolf.dahl at telia.com > -----Original Message----- > From: David Bailey [mailto:dave at removedbailey.co.uk] > Sent: den 6 januari 2011 08:02 > To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Subject: [mg115264] Augmenting Mathematica documentation - a serious proposal > > On 04/01/2011 09:21, telefunkenvf14 wrote: > > > > > Now I'm intrigued... Can we make a wiki version?!? (Guessing WRI would > > not be happy with this---umm...copy rights?) > > > > -RG > > > > I think a set of extra information about Mathematica functions would be > a really valuable resource, and could include contributions from many > people. Copyright needn't be an issue if we did it by programmatically, > inserting a big "MORE INFORMATION" dropdown box at the start of a > standard documentation notebook. > > This could all-but eliminate a whole range of problems that beginner > users encounter, such as > > arr=expr//MatrixForm > > The dropdown would supply a choice of links to websites that contained > additional information for that particular function. Contributors would > have to supply their web address to a central list, which would then be > used by the installation program. > > I would be willing to set this up if enough people show interest (and > WRI don't raise serious objections :) ). > > David Bailey > http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk