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Mathematica Help Browser from Mathematica 5 in new versions of Mathematica

开发者 https://www.devze.com 2023-02-28 07:42 出处:网络
I remember that someone from WRI stated in the official newsgroup that Mathematica开发者_JAVA百科 7 still has a working old-fashioned Mathematica Help Browser from Mathematica 5 for compatibility purp

I remember that someone from WRI stated in the official newsgroup that Mathematica开发者_JAVA百科 7 still has a working old-fashioned Mathematica Help Browser from Mathematica 5 for compatibility purposes. But I can not find the post where the code for invoking it is given.

How to invoke and use this legacy Help Browser in new versions of Mathematica?


The old browser will show up if you try to look at documentation for packages that were written in the old format. From the main documentation page, click 'Add-Ons and Packages' at the very bottom-left, and then click on the old package name. Based on what I have installed, it looks like the old packages will have a little orange square in front of them, instead of a triangle that shows/hides additional information.

The old browser is only used for old documentation.

I assume you're aware of the 'Function Navigator' and 'Virtual Book' which provide alternate ways of navigating the new documentation.


At this moment I have found two ways to invoke the legacy Help Browser by clicking a button:

DisplayForm@ButtonBox["Preface",
    BaseStyle -> "AddOnsLinkText",
    Active -> True,
    ButtonData :> {"PCT Preface", None}]

and

DisplayForm@
 ButtonBox[" »", BaseStyle -> "Link", Evaluator -> Automatic, 
  ButtonFunction :> (PacletManager`Package`helpBrowserLookup[#] &), 
  ButtonData -> "Help Browser"]

I found that we have the global option HelpBrowserSettings that specifies settings for the legacy Help Browser.

And we still have working functions HelpBrowserLookup and HelpBrowserNotebook (now undocumented) and command FrontEndTokenExecute["RebuildHelpIndex"] for rebuilding the help index of the legacy Help Browser.

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