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How to Create a Package Overview Help Page

 

Template Instructions

Help Page Template Sections

Template Instructions

  

To create a Package Overview help page using the template:

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Enter ?examples/PackageOverviewTemplate at the Maple prompt or click the following hyperlink: Package Overview help page template.

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Save the worksheet with an appropriate name.

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Replace <Package_Name> with the name of the package.  Remove the angle brackets (< >) surrounding this field.

Help Page Template Sections

Calling Sequence

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Use the format specified for the calling sequences.  Replace <Package_Name> with the name of your package.

Description

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The first bullet item should be an overview of the package functionality. Include any details, for example, the scope or generality of the package.

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The following bullet item is required for all package overview help pages.

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Use the following paragraph if and only if the package is implemented as a module.

List of <Package_Name> Package Commands

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Use the following bullet item as an introductory sentence.

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Insert hyperlinks (one for each command) to all package command help pages in your package.

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The table is followed by the following sentence.

Examples

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Include a variety of examples to show range of functionality and/or how to solve problems using the package.

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If you will be saving your help page in .mws format, you must use 1-D math to enter your examples.  If you will be saving the help page in .mw format, you can choose 1-D math, 2-D math, or a mixture of input forms.

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Add comments for each example.

See Also

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List help page hyperlinks in alphabetical order separated by commas. For more information, see worksheet/managing/linking and worksheet/documenting/hyperlinkeditor.

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You do not need to include links to any functions within this package, since there is a link to each function in the List of <Package_Name> Package Commands above.

See Also

examples/PackageOverviewTemplate

Templates

UsingPackages

worksheet/documenting/hyperlinkeditor

worksheet/managing/linking

 


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