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beginDocumentation -- start documentation section of a package

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Description

Documentation for a package, and tests for the package, should be placed after this point in a package file. This way, documentation can be loaded separately, Macaulay2 examples in the documentation can be run, and the whole documentation can be stored in a database.

For an example, see an example of a package.

To write documentation without using the function beginDocumentation, which is just an optimization, use needsPackage to load the packages SimpleDoc and Text.

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For the programmer

The object beginDocumentation is a function closure.