4.4. Documentation

Documentation

   1. Reference manual
   2. Tutorial
   3. Context-sensitive help screens

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EW: online tutorials and online help, not contextual, also with an internal search functionality

RW:

2: various tutorials + full help online, not contextual

Pr:

  1. Users' Guide in English, bound, TOC, index; not an alphabetic nor systematic reference manual. Complete, precise, clear, reliable (does not solve difficult tasks)
  2. chap. "Guided tour" + on-line help. (Shorter manual only for read-only Data distributor version)
  3. yes but not really contextual; MS-Windows like, contains less info than the printed Guide

En:

  1. Users' Guide in English, only as Adobe PDF file; not an alphabetic nor systematic reference manual. Complete, precise, clear; see the online help to get more secure, though not definite, information
  2. "Getting started" on CD as PDF + Guide Tour printed (some 90 pages) 
  3. unsufficiently contextual

RM:

  1. Users' Guide in English: it is not an alphabetic or systematic reference manual. Could be more precise and complete. Only published as a PDF file.
  2. "Getting started guide" printed, also as part of the full PDF guide
  3. yes contextual and complete -with few exceptions

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