# Packages and documentation

**URL:** <https://community.wolfram.com/t/packages-and-documentation/3894>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** software-development, mathematica, packages-and-paclets\
**Created:** [November 5, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://community.wolfram.com/t/packages-and-documentation/3894 "2014-11-05T03:16:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![fgutiers2002](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bb73d2/32.png) [@fgutiers2002](https://community.wolfram.com/u/fgutiers2002)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://community.wolfram.com/t/packages-and-documentation/3894/1 "2014-11-05T03:16:40Z")

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Could somebody give me a clear and step by step explanation of how to create documentation that appears in the Help Page (in the Add-ons page)?  
Haven’t managed to do it. Documentation is not terribly clear in this regard.  
Any help is very welcome  
Francisco

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**Author:** ![dreiss](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/wolfram/user_avatar/community.wolfram.com/dreiss/32/29094_2.png) [@dreiss](https://community.wolfram.com/u/dreiss)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 5:44am UTC](https://community.wolfram.com/t/packages-and-documentation/3894/2 "2014-11-05T05:44:22Z")

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There is not a simple documented way to do this efficiently as far as I know. However, one way to approach it is to use tools in Wolfram workbench. I have not use these so I cannot comment on them. There is a fair amount of complexity and setting things up for the documentation center. However I and some others in the past have a reverse engineered some of this and some information on this appears in the Documentation Center Notes notebook at the following link:

[http://www.scientificarts.com/worklife/notebooks/index.html](http://www.scientificarts.com/worklife/notebooks/index.html)

Note that this was written several versions of Mathematica ago, so there maybe details that are no longer quite correct. I have not checked it recently. However it will give you a sense of what the internal mechanics are.

You will also want to take a look at the documentation for Wolfram workbench to see how it can be used with its tools to create documentation center pages.

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**Author:** ![fgutiers2002](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bb73d2/32.png) [@fgutiers2002](https://community.wolfram.com/u/fgutiers2002)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 11:15pm UTC](https://community.wolfram.com/t/packages-and-documentation/3894/3 "2014-11-05T23:15:31Z")

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Many thanks for this, excellent resource. Will work with this and if I have some problem will come back with further requests.

Since this process is such a critical area for the language and for all of us for whom Mathematica is a fundamental tool, it would be important to document it well and clearly.

Thanks again and best regards,  
Francisco