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Install SciDraw from the download?

I just downloaded Mark Caprio's SciDraw Mathematica add-on and unzipped the archive. Now I have a top-level folder SciDraw-0.0.7 that contains in turn the subfolders doc and packages; and SciDraw-0.0.7/packages in turn contains a subfolder SciDraw (along with others such as BlockOptions, CustomTicks, etc.).

Question: Exactly what should be done to install what was downloaded into the MathematicaUserBase's Applications folder, so that one can do a <<SciDraw` load command? Does that already take care of loading or otherwise making available the other packages (BlockOptions, CustomTicks, etc)?

Or is the intention that one separately installs each of those SciDraw-0.0.7/packages subfolders as a separate folder in MathematicaUserBase's Applications folder?

If it's necessary to do this, I do know how, within a subfolder such"MyApp", say, of the MathematicaUserBase's Applications folder, to create a Kernel subfolder and put an init.m into it containing just an initialization cell

Get['MyApp`MyApp`"];

so that from the Front End one can load the package by <<MyApp`, i.e., without having to use any Get command.

So what exactly is the intended procedure with SciDraw?

And why, if you don't mind my asking, is this not spelled out clearly in the docs?

POSTED BY: Murray Eisenberg
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POSTED BY: Bianca Eifert
POSTED BY: Bianca Eifert

Yes, I suspected that what you say is the case. I should have examined each init.m to see that it is indeed correctly set up so that a simple <<PkgName` command loads it.

If the packages' author sees this, I would urge him to add a simple .txt file at the top-level in the archive saying simply to:

(1) copy each of the subfolders in the "packages" folder to the MathematicaUserBase's Applications folder; and

(2) cry the doc folder into the copied SciDraw folder.

"Clutter" of the Applications folder is hardly a problem, at least for me: I already have some 200 packages — some very small and some quite large — there!

POSTED BY: Murray Eisenberg
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