MATLAB Installation Guide for Unix

Specify Documentation Viewing Options

Using MATLAB preferences or the docopt.m option file, you can specify either of these two documentation viewing options:

• The browser used to view the MATLAB online documentation
• The location of the documentation

If MATLAB supports its Java-based desktop on your UNIX system, you can use the MATLAB desktop preferences mechanism to specify the values of these options. (By default, MATLAB uses the desktop's Help browser to display HTML documentation.) To modify these documentation viewing options, choose the Preferences option on the MATLAB File menu and select the Help option. (See the Release Notes documentation for information about platform support for Java.)

If MATLAB does not support the desktop on your UNIX system, you can specify values for these options by editing the docopt.m M-file, located in the $MATLAB/toolbox/local directory. Use this options file to specify an alternative Web browser, additional initial browser options, or a different initial path to the viewable documentation.

Viewing Documentation

The documentation commands available at the MATLAB command prompt are

doc	Starts the MATLAB Help browser
help function	Displays M-file help for function
helpwin	Displays a list of MATLAB help topics in the Help browser
helpdesk	Starts the MATLAB Help browser, which provides access to the full documentation set, including HTML and PDF formatted documents

Viewing the PDF files requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Additional information about Acrobat Reader is available at www.adobe.com.

Specifying Print Options

Specifying MATLAB Startup Options