On 9/6/06, Vadim V. Zhytnikov <vvzhy at mail.ru> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I'm puzzled. On Windows Maxima html manual is in the Main Windows
> menu together with other Maxima shortcuts. I can't imagine what
> can be simpler? As for searchability, please try wxMaxima
> and it's help system.
On Windows we should really provide help in chm format and put links
to that into menus. All that is needed to produce help in chm format
is already present in maxima all that is missing is to compile the
files. wxMaxima could use chm files directly using the builtin Windows
help viewer and I'm sure xmaxima could be changed to do the same.
Andrej