help - on-line help command
help without argument displays the hypertext page containing the list of help chapters.
help(key) displays the Scilab help file associated with the given key . If no help file is found, help(key) automatically call apropos(key) .
Scilab includes its own simple browser written in TCL/TK. It is possible to choose an other one. The global variable %browsehelp contains a string defining which browser must be used: its value may be changed (or redefined in your .scilab file). Note that when you enter an help command while %browsehelp contains the empty matrix [] then the different browser choice possibilities are displayed (so that you can enter the 2 instructions: global %browsehelp; %browsehelp=[] for changing of browser !). As generally different browsers have differents calling sequences, if your favorite one is not in the list you may have to adapt the browsehelp scilab which can be found in SCI/macros/util/browsehelp.sci .
See man for more explanation on how to write new help pages .