Is there on online help file available for the IDL Astronomy Library?
Each procedure contains a documentation header. Unfortunately, there is no easy way in IDL to link the documentation for user procedures with either the hypertext help or the Acrobat .PDF files used for intrinsic procedures. One way to create help files is to use the standard IDL procedure MK_HTML_HELP to create an .html help file, though this help file can be awkward to use, due to its large size and lack of subcategories. An alternative is to simply use the one-line description of procedures, available at Goddard or in Tübingen or to mirror one of these sites locally. Users of Emacs can use the excellent help facilities incorporated into the IDLWAVE mode.
