Help Style Guide - Maple Programming Help

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Help Style Guide

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

Maple Commands

 Bold, red text identifies demonstrations of the following:
 • Commands, subcommands, functions, procedures, and calling sequences
 • Parameters
 • Environment variables, keywords, Maple specific names, and protected text
 • 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:
 • Maple expressions and mathematical functions and expressions such as ${x}^{2}$ and $\frac{ⅆ}{ⅆx}\phantom{\rule[-0.0ex]{0.4em}{0.0ex}}\left({x}^{3}\right)$.

 Bold, black text identifies the following:
 • Dialog box, button, and textual note
 • Key names (for example, Enter, Delete, Ctrl, Esc)

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

Sections

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