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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Example in finite element method tutorial does not work
I am trying to run this example for the finite element method. Here is the code copied from the tutorial.
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How to typeset a key combination in Mathematica notebook?
I'm writing a tech note in Mathematica, and would like to include some key combination shortcuts. For example, Ctrl+/ for entering fractions. How do I typeset key combinations so that they look like ...
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What exactly does RootSum mean?
I have difficulties understanding what RootSum object is mathematically, as it is not really well explained anywhere. It came up in a solution to a quite complicated system of differential equations ...
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Function to express Piecewise as UnitStep functions
Is there a documentation for the function Simplify`PWToUnitStep? This is a function which can be used to express a Piecewise ...
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Interpretation function not working properly with Graphics [closed]
The Interpretation function does not seem to be working properly with Graphics on my computer (MacOS 14.2.1, Mathematica 14.0.0.0). Instead of returning what it should be interpreted as, it returns ...
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How do I format the `expr` in the `::usage` message of functions in a mathematica .wl package (without using Workbench)?
This probably has an easy answer but I can't work it out. In Mathematica's documentation, the ::usage message has some text formatting for expr. In the ...
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Which functions use a given option?
I occasionally discover Options which look like they might be useful, if only I knew which functions used that option. Is there a resource that lists all the functions which use a given option? What ...
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Definition of ResourceFunction["IntegrateByParts"]
Here we can see definition of ResourceFunction["RainbowText"].
The definition is quite obvious on the image (explicit open source).
We can get the ...
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Hyperlinks that open smoothly in the same window
Suppose that I have test1.nb and test2.nb in my local disk.
For simplicity, suppose that ...
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How to make "Get Help" entries for custom package?
I've got a small collection of Mathematica tools that I'd like to make into a package. One of the nicest features in Mathematica is the ability to right click on any built-in function and just select &...
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FeatureSpacePlot output differs in documentation vs. a notebook
I was exploring this first example of FeatureSpacePlot and it shows some strange behavior. On the left is the documentation window and to the right is the notebook. ...
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Which Slots Are Which? Tensors
I'm trying to verify a calculation in Mathematica and I'm confused about how Mathematica arranges tensor "slots" for contractions.
I have the matrix
$$J_1 = \begin{pmatrix} 0 & -ih & ...
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Is the Mathematica code font available somewhere? [duplicate]
I'm running Mathematica 9, which is quite an old version. I often use the specially-formatted double brackets to easily distinguish single and double brackets. For example, I use:
instead of:
which ...
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How do we create a function for the recurrence relation in terms of a dependent variable?
Suppose
S = {{-1.5, 1}, {0, 1}, {1.5, 1}, {1.5, 0.1}, {0, -0.1}, {-1.5, 0}, {1, -1.4}, {-1, -1.5}}
How do we define the recurrence relation as a function of the ...
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Covering a rectangle with shapes/closed curves of equal area?
Motivation: We want to cover a rectangle using smaller, non-overlapping shapes with the same area: the difference between the total area of the shapes and the area of the rectangle should be zero or ...
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