{"id":336,"date":"2012-01-27T15:12:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T20:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/?p=336"},"modified":"2012-01-30T11:26:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T16:26:32","slug":"matlab-documentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/2012\/01\/27\/matlab-documentation\/","title":{"rendered":"MATLAB Documentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:mwsh=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/namespace\/mcode\/v1\/syntaxhighlight.dtd\" class=\"content\">\r\n   <introduction>\r\n      <p>For quite a while now, we have made MathWorks product documentation available from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/support\/\">support<\/a> page on our web site.  Though we started with MATLAB documentation initially, we have added documentation for all the rest\r\n         of our products and have hosted a complete set on the mathworks.com for quite some time now.\r\n      <\/p>\r\n      <p>As you likely know, within the MathWorks family of products, you can often find more than one way, or even more than one product,\r\n         to accomplish a particular goal.  However, it's been difficult to see the whole landscape of possibilities, including functions,\r\n         examples, information in the User Guide, etc., for any given topic - until now, that is.  I want to show you our more integrated\r\n         approach for seeking information in this post.\r\n      <\/p>\r\n   <\/introduction>\r\n   <h3>Contents<\/h3>\r\n   <div>\r\n      <ul>\r\n         <li><a href=\"#1\">Find Documentation On-Line<\/a><\/li>\r\n         <li><a href=\"#2\">Find New Beta Documentation Center<\/a><\/li>\r\n         <li><a href=\"#3\">Documentation Center Features<\/a><\/li>\r\n         <li><a href=\"#4\">Browse Documentation Topics by category<\/a><\/li>\r\n         <li><a href=\"#5\">Search Documentation Topics<\/a><\/li>\r\n         <li><a href=\"#6\">Learning About Curve Fitting<\/a><\/li>\r\n         <li><a href=\"#7\">Documentation Center<\/a><\/li>\r\n      <\/ul>\r\n   <\/div>\r\n   <h3>Find Documentation On-Line<a name=\"1\"><\/a><\/h3>\r\n   <p>If you go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\">MathWorks website<\/a>, you can search in the box in the upper right corner for the term \"documention\".  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