Questions tagged [documentation]

Questions about making your own documentation similar to the built-in documentation style. Also about finding things in the documentation, working with the documentation, errors in the documentation, missing documentation, Context used in the documentation etc.

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Mathematica 13 doesn't show local documentation,

My Mathematica 13 doesn't show local documentation, it includes just Web documentation. (Windows 11) But Mathematica 12.3 gives. How to enable local documentation to Mathematica 13? edit (by Nasser) Fyi, when installing, the choices given…
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Open and search Documentation-Center

In notebooks you can press F1 (or Shift+F1 for a new window) to: open the help page of the marked Symbol or the Symbol under the cursor in the Documentation Center to search the Documentation Center, if no direct page was available Question: Is it…
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How can I list all tech note pages?

It seems since v12.1 a new doc type, tech note, is included in the documentation. However, I cannot find an index page for the tech notes. So how can I list all such tech note pages?
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Mathematica's deeper documentation

Is there Mathematica documentation on the methods that it uses? Documentation that goes into explanations of the methods that it employs.
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How do I add my own help pages to the in-built Wolfram documentation?

How do I add my own help pages to the in-built Wolfram documentation ?
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Directory of Wolfram Language reference tutorials

The online reference for the Wolfram Language includes tutorials on various topics. Is there a table of contents or directory containing links to all of these tutorials?
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Searching the docs for commands that use a particular option

Concrete example: Pressing F1 on ListPlot brings up the documentation page. As an example, Exclusions is not an option for this command. Going to Exclusions page says that this option applies to certain commands (like Plot, Plot3D and NIntegrate) Is…
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Is there official documentation for official documentation and getting help system of Mathematica?

Mathematica has very high quality and extensive documentation and good getting help system (? Solve as an example; there maybe are more too). Is there all including official documentation about Mathematica official documentation (describing…
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Question about changes in Documentation Center from version 10 to 11

The package Exploring Abstract Algebra with Mathematica works fine in Mathematica 10.4. After installing it in the $UserBaseDirectory it neatly shows up under Add-Ons and Packages in the Documentation Center. But this is no longer the case in…
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How do I efficiently navigate the Documentation Center?

Back in the day, I read the Mathematica Book cover-to-cover, and I found it to be an enlightening experience. I realize that the Documentation Center is now an order of magnitude larger than the Mathematica Book was, but suppose I wanted to…
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Extract a list of all built-in functions used in a notebook

I am writing my code documentation and need to list all the Mathematica built in functions I have used - explicitly written functions only. Is there a way to extract a list of all built in functions that I have used in my code? For…
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How to find all tutorials for Mathematica?

Where can I find a central location to easily access all of Mathematica's tutorials and monographs on subjects such as (this is a very small sample and not representative of the many topics out there) linear algebra, physically based rendering,…
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Way to expand all cells of a help doc page at once?

If I wish to look through a long documentation page (e.g., that for Integrate or Plot), I find it helpful to first expand all the cells. I can then search for what I seek with either a visual scan or a word search. However, expanding all the cells…
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Hyperlink to Documentation Pages

Is there a way to Hyperlink to a documentation pages. Since documentation pages are notebooks, does hyperlinking to these with file protocol opens them in the documentation center with all the documentation properties like all edits made on them are…
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How can I extract docs data from a WRI Workbench template?

I would like to move my docs out of Workbench in something simpler, but it's painful to imagine moving over all of the pages that I already have. DocuTools has lots of custom style names and has become complicated and bloated over time, so I can't…
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