help functions

Online Macaulay 2 documentation is stored in hypertext form.

Functions for accessing the documentation:

  • apropos
  • doc
  • examples
  • help
  • topicList
  • topics
  • How to write documentation yourself:

  • document
  • hypertext
  • Output formatting routines:

  • html
  • mathML
  • tex
  • text
  • Some internals:

  • Documentation
  • phase
  • See also reading the documentation.


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