Thanks for your thoughts. Of course, it is easy for an experienced
user to set up the html manual to his/her own taste. But, I think
having this as a button would make xmaxima more user friendly for the new and
inexperienced user.
Speaking for myself alone, I found the inability to search for items
in the browser a bothersome liability--more important even than being
able to click on functions in the browser. Someone earlier said that
adding search or even line breaks to the function list in the xmaxima
browser was difficult. Having the html manual available would solve
these problems. I don't think it is obvious where to find the html
manual to new users, particularly in the Win-XP environment. It
wasn't until I started using the tar.gz version of the installer that
I found our where the html manual was.
BTW, I think having a user choice of editor is much more important
than the html manual.
Any chance of that capability being added sometime soon?
-Cheers,
-sen
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:
> sen1 at math.msu.edu writes:
>> On the manual, how about an extra button in the xmaxima window under
>> "Help" which would allow the user to use firefox, iexplorer, etc to open the
>> manual? One button could say "browser manual" and the other could
>> say "html manual"
>>
>
> I really don't understand the purpose of such button.
> If you prefer to browse the manual with some favorite html
> browser - you can just make a corresponding link/shortcut yourself.
> With all modern Windows of Unix graphic environments it easy - several
> mouse clicks (BTW Windows Maxima installer makes such shortcuts
> automatically). Why reinvent the wheel and create any special machinery
> this?
>
> With best regards,
>
> Vadim
>
>
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