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JMP Documentation Formats

sheila_loring

Hi, I'm the manager of technical documentation at JMP. We offer documentation in several formats, among them print books and e-books (Kindle and EPUB).

I have some questions for you:

1. How many of you buy the JMP print books?

2. Now that you know about them, would you buy the e-books? e-books are like PDF files but they provide some interactive features.

3. Which do you use the most -- the ? help, Help > JMP Help menu, or PDF files?

We always strive to provide users with the best help options, so I'm really curious about your opinions.

Thanks,

Sheila

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Ted

I use more help, than pdf (perhaps, because stuck at JMP ver.10)

pmroz

I don't buy the hardcopy books because everything's there in PDF format

Don't think I would buy the ebooks because of the free PDFs.

The option that I use the most is the scripting index. Mainly because i do a lot of scripting.

sheila_loring

Thanks, Ted.

sheila_loring

Thanks for responding, Peter. Glad you find the Scripting Index helpful. I use it every day.

txnelson

I find the Scripting Guide a tool that was very important during my initial learning of JSL. Having it in PDF format was quite sufficient. I do not maintain a separate tablet for my e reading. I am in the Windows environment, and my e reading is done from a Windows tablet, which also allows me to have a complete version of JMP, from which I have access to the Scripting Guide PDF.

That said, what I find most important, is the Scripting Index. And within the index, the examples are extremely important. Being able to interactively run the example and to mouse over the variables in the examples, etc. is something an e-book just can't provide.

Thirdly, from my activities on the Discusson Forum, just getting new users to read any documentation would be helpful. From that, I hope an e-book would open the door to a new branch of users who embrace e-books.

sheila_loring

Jim, just curious, why do you choose PDF versus the HTML help that's in JMP?

David_Burnham

For understanding elements of the UI (i.e. what does this option do?) I use the ?-tool.

For coding I use the scripting index.

For trying to understand what JMP is doing under the bonnet I use PDF.

Increasingly, I'm using a tablet for PDF documentation, so that I can read offline.