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Re: Is PDF the only help option in 5.6? [message #33990 is a reply to message #33989] Tue, 11 February 2003 09:57 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Wayne Landsman is currently offline  Wayne Landsman
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Registered: January 1997
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Eric Williams wrote:

> I really dislike using Acrobat Reader to browse help in IDL now. Is
> there an option to get the old hyperlinked help back(last version
> before this I used was 5.3)?

I never used the PDF help until I was forced to in V5.6, but now I must
admit that I like it better. One of the nice features for me is being
able to type
?procedure_name
at the iDL prompt, to quickly view the documentation, e.g.

IDL> ?congrid
IDL> ?replicate

(This would sort of work in the old IDL help, but it would open a new
window each
time, and wouldn't take you directly to the documentation.)

Tastes differ but there are lot of options the user can set in their PDF
preferences.

--Wayne Landsman

P.S. Though I don't miss the old help format, I still would like an HTML
version of the documentation (which stopped appearing after V5.1), since
this is the only type of online
help available for user procedures.
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