A complete documentation set is available in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). To view or search these files, you can can use Acrobat Reader with Search, available from Adobe Systems and also included on your MATLAB CD-ROM. Visit the Adobe Acrobat home page for infomation about Adobe Acrobat. You can perform full-text searching across the set of PDF documents included in this release, as described under Search and Retrieval Using Acrobat, below.

• Late-Breaking News for the MATLAB 5.2 Product Family
  Provides release notes for MATLAB, Simulink, Stateflow and other products in the 5.2 release.
• MATLAB 5.2 Product Family New Features
  Describes new features and enhancements in MATLAB 5.2 and associated products updated or introduced with MATLAB 5.2. Also provides information on making the transition from MATLAB 4.x to MATLAB 5.
• Getting Started with MATLAB
  Explains how to get started with the fundamentals of MATLAB.
• Using MATLAB
  Provides in depth material on the MATLAB language, working environment, and mathematical topics.
• Using MATLAB Graphics
  Describes how to use MATLAB's graphics and visualization tools.
• MATLAB Functions Reference - Volume 1 and Volume 2
  Contains reference descriptions for MATLAB's commands, functions, and operators.
• Building GUIs with MATLAB
  Describes how to make MATLAB-based Graphical User Interface tools.
• MATLAB Application Program Interface Guide
  Explains how to write C or Fortran programs that interact with MATLAB.
• MATLAB Application Program Interface Reference Manual
  Contains reference descriptions for the API routines, which enable C or Fortran programs to interact with MATLAB.
• MATLAB Notebook User's Guide
  Describes MATLAB Notebook, which allows access to MATLAB's numeric computation and visualization software from within Microsoft Word.
• MATLAB Installation Guide for UNIX
  Describes how to install MATLAB on UNIX platforms.
• MATLAB Installation Guide for MS-Windows and Macintosh
  Describes how to install MATLAB on PC and Macintosh platforms.

Related Papers
     (Some of the following documents are provided as PostScript files.)

• MATLAB ODE SUITE (PDF)
• Test Matrix Toolbox (PostScript)
• Implicitly Restarted Arnoldi/Lanczos Methods For Large-Scale Eigenvalue Calculations (PostScript)
• Sparse Matrices in MATLAB: Design and Implementation (PostScript)

You can perform search and retrieval operations across the set of PDF documents included in this release. To make use of this feature, you need to have Acrobat Reader with Search (which is part of Adobe's Acrobat 3 release, and also included on your MATLAB CD-ROM). Alternatively, you can use the Search tool included with Acrobat 2 software, described below.

Searching Using Acrobat 3

If you have Acrobat Reader with Search, you can issue the Tools > Search > Query command to search for a term. However, the first time you use Search, you have to indicate the location of the search index used by Acrobat to facilitate searches. Do this as follows:

• Issue the Tools > Search > Indexes... command.
• On the Index Selection dialog box that appears, click the button labeled "Add...".
• Using the "Add Index" dialog box that appears next, specify the following index file located under the MATLAB root directory:

       help/pdf_doc/mw_index/index.pdx
  

  The selected index, labeled "MathWorks 5.2 Online Documentation", with its checkbox checked, should now appear in the Index Selection dialog box. Click OK to complete the selection.

Acrobat Search can perform boolean and other more sophisticated searches. See the Adobe documentation for more information.

Searching Using Acrobat 2

For Acrobat version 2, the Search tool is not included with the Acrobat Reader software, but is available in some of Adobe's commercial packages, such as Acrobat for Workgroups. In Acrobat for Workgroups, the Search tool is provided as a plug-in that works under the Acrobat Exchange program.

If you do have a copy of Adobe's Search software, you can perform searches using Acrobat Exchange. Specify the search index and issue queries as described above.