Hello everybody

Looking the new extensions manager an idea crosses my mind: add a "Manuals" category (pdf/sm/smz handbooks,manuals and guides can be published here).

Another idea was to add a 5th filter: language.

Maybe Andrey have already thought this, I don't know...


regards,

w3b5urf3r

Great idea, David! Will add Manuals as an additional type of extensions. But not sure about file formats to accept... will think about it.

Regarding filter: my nearest plans to implement more powerful filter, where one could request to list only files with animations, or graphs, or pictures etc. And of course it will be possible to filter by language.

Thank you!

I see several options for providing manuals.

1.: Just use the wiki, online or offline. If I could send my latex manual to reasonably formatted html, this could be an option for me. So far, I just did wiki edits with the embedded editor and find that cumbersome. My latex manual is made using LyX.

2. Interlinked SMath pages just like the built in reference book. That would require either enhanced editing and document structuring capabilities in SMath or some sort of converter from Latex, Word or ODT to SMath.

3. Word, ODT or PDF with embedded active SMath boxes just as we had that in prehistoric times with Mathcad or which is sometimes seen in the forum with smath live. Is it possible to provide an SMath plugin for Word, or OO/LO just like but of course much better than comppad. In order to document any SMath stuff that plugin would need to cover every SMath extensions just like the viewer. That would also be a big advantage over Mathcad, because their office integration has been lost since Mathcad Prime or earlier.

Currently, I have active contents in my manual just by attaching sm files to the final pdf. But you need to open them in order to see them. There are nearly 800 screen shots which are tedious to keep consistent to the current SMath version. Thus I do not consider this being an generally accepted way.

Wrote

2. Interlinked SMath pages just like the built in reference book...

I like it best. Something like the SMath Reference Book or something similar to Mathcad HANDBOOK.

Regards,
Radovan