Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!hardy From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Help in Mathematica (was: Maple for NeXT) Message-ID: Date: 23 Apr 91 06:09:15 GMT References: <1991Apr21.191124.14582@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1991Apr23.025216.11147@mp.cs.niu.edu> Organization: U.C.Irvine, Dept. of Physics Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: golem.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu's message of 23 Apr 91 04:39:43 GMT In article Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu writes: >> I'm not a Mathematica wizard, but I had to install version 1.2 of Mathematica >> on some NeXT 2.0 machines. I don't know if the following solves all the help >> problems, but I did notice that if you select "help" from the menu you get a >> dialog that is showing you nothing. The dialog has a scroll bar in it, but >> there's no control in the scroll bar (as if the window is showing everything >> there is to show). >> >> I found that if you click in the scroll bar, the help information magically >> appears. I don't know if *all* the help info appears, but quite a bit shows up. It does indeed -- shows that I am not an experimentalist. Howver, the responcse is somewhat erratic, and not really context-sensitive; i.e, if you scroll up or down chances are you might find what you want. Command-completion does not work either. Let's hope version 2.0 fixes this and is out before Maple becomes available! Greetings, Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy); Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717; (714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET