Style Guide - Maple Help

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Help Style Guide

  

The following conventions have been adopted for the Maple help system.

 

Maple Commands

Maple 2-D Math Notation

Maple Menu Items

Hyperlinks

Sections

Maple Commands

  

Bold, red text identifies demonstrations of the following:

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Commands, subcommands, functions, procedures, and calling sequences

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Parameters

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Environment variables, keywords, Maple specific names, and protected text

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Maple package names

Maple 2-D Math Notation

  

Natural mathematical notation, referred to in Maple documentation as 2-D math, is used for the following:

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Maple expressions and mathematical functions and expressions such as x2 and ⅆⅆxx3.

Maple Menu Items

  

Bold, black text identifies the following:

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Menu name, menu item

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Dialog box, button, and textual note

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Key names (for example, Enter, Delete, Ctrl, Esc)

Hyperlinks

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Blue, underlined text denotes a hyperlink.

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Rust, underlined text denotes a hyperlink to a dictionary definition.

Sections

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The help pages use sections to organize content.  In most pages, the sections are shown expanded and without arrows.

See Also

2-D Math

Help Page Templates

Using Help