MATLAB New Features Guide Help Desk

Introduction

MATLAB 5 is a significant new release of MATLAB. We've been listening to your requests for new features - via telephone, e-mail, and at conferences - for the past several years, and have carefully used them to design this new version. We have combined these requests with exciting innovations to bring you MATLAB 5.

This booklet

If you're familiar with MATLAB 4, you should read this guide first. Go on to Using MATLAB and Using MATLAB Graphics for more details on any new feature. If you encounter a new MATLAB function in this book and want to learn more, consult the online MATLAB Function Reference . (See "MATLAB Documentation" below.)

If you are a new MATLAB user, you should begin with Getting Started with MATLAB, which introduces you to MATLAB's capabilities as a programming and visualization language.

Help Desk

MATLAB 5 includes the MATLAB Help Desk, an enhanced Help facility that provides access to online help topics, online reference materials, electronic documentation, and World Wide Web pages through a Web browser. You do not need to be connected to the Internet to use this facility.

The Help Desk is optimized for the use of Netscape Navigator.

On all platforms you can access this facility via the helpdesk command. On the PC and Macintosh you can additionally access this facility via the Help menu or the ? icon on the Command Window toolbar.

Related MATLAB Commands

MATLAB Documentation

The MATLAB documentation set has been rewritten, expanded, and divided into several volumes for ease of use. The set includes on-line help, as well as hypertext-based and printed manuals. The online MATLAB Function Reference is a compendium of all MATLAB language, mathematical, and graphics functions. You can access this documentation from the MATLAB Help Desk. Choose "MATLAB Functions " to display the Function Reference.

The online documentation is augmented with a full set of printed documents, consisting of the following titles:

If one or more of the printed documents is unavailable to you, you can locate an online version of the same document via the Help Desk.

Additionally, command line ASCII help and an extensive library of demonstration programs provide instant online reference information about MATLAB commands and demonstrate MATLAB features.



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