Seeking Help with Windows Maxima installer localization
Subject: Seeking Help with Windows Maxima installer localization
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:15:39 -0700
On 11/16/06, Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> I think that the current typesetting convention uses a painfully large
> amount of space for examples (at least in the version I look at); the
> on-line Mma manual which provides for "click here for more examples" makes
> excellent use of space.
Certainly in the html docs it should be possible to fold up the
examples by default, and then show them in response to a click.
Probably some simple script embedded in the html could do that.
(Something I don't know anything about.)
> Also keywords and distinctions would be useful. E.g. factor/ factorize
> /roots should refer to the factor command but also root finding commands
> like realroots and Newton and polynomial approximate zeros etc.
I want to implement a category system in the near future,
the notion being that an item can belong to multiple categories.
E.g. the category illustrated above could be "Roots of equations"
or something like that, but polynomial factorization could also
be categorized under "Polynomials" and Newton's method under
"Numerical methods". There would be a separate documentation
item for each category, with a list of the topics which fall into
that category, plus maybe a summary or overview.
FWIW
Robert Dodier