Robert,
You said you were skeptical about this searchable help system? Is there anything I should know about? I like to clean up messes.
Programmer a and Programmer b create a mess c and super-coder d (me) comes along and actually gets it to work according to original
design specs. Its what I do, it's lucrative, it's fun. I not that good with Lisp knowledge.
Sometimes I come up with my own stuff too.
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Hennessy" <rvh2007 at comcast.net>
To: "Robert Dodier" <robert.dodier at gmail.com>; "Barton Willis" <willisb at unk.edu>
Cc: <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Maxima] Fitting in Maxima
I am almost done with pw.mac so I was thinking it might be good still to have a help text search that supports "and" "or" and "not"
and parentheses. I hope that is a improvement over the current help search. I am not sure it would be enough though. If
everything was searchable maybe you could find this. I searched "fitting" and found simple_linear_regression(). I would not have
found that any other way. In fact I didn't even know about it until just now after trying a search.
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Dodier" <robert.dodier at gmail.com>
To: "Barton Willis" <willisb at unk.edu>
Cc: <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Maxima] Fitting in Maxima
On 12/31/08, Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu> wrote:
> Maybe because linsolve_by_lu isn't documented :( I must make a new years
> resolution ... Of course, just documenting linsolve_by_lu doesn't make
> the function easy find---our documentation needs more cross references
> (linsolve_by_lu, solve, linsolve, and algsys all reference each other).
Well, the documentation category system is supposed to address
the problem by getting all the items to point to a common location
(the category) where they're listed together.
The major defect in the existing category system is that the existing
in-Maxima documentation system (? and ??) can't follow links in
.info files, so there's no sense in generating the category links;
they're generated only for html output at present. (Although if someone
used the info program to browse, the links could be used there.)
Not sure what to do about that.
The category system might be improved by putting some per-category
exposition, or by putting in a 1-line summary of each item, or by
allowing nested categories.
best
Robert
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