The documentation includes a thorough discussion of the analytical and numerical underpinnings of the software. Context sensitive on-line help is complete in some areas, even including equations or filled formats where appropriate. Ten sample problems are supplied with the software installation. The documentation is an outstanding technical reference. Unfortunately, it is not a very good user's manual.
Users deserve both.
Maybe the technical reference does not need an index, but the user's manual that we desire does. Although we found the interface fairly intuitive, and we like, the inclusion of the sample problems, we would like a section of the hard-copy documentation to include tutorials that illustrate the us of progressively more complex features of the software package. Many of us learn by doing, and that holds especially true with software. While we found the software to be relatively robust and stable we also found that it was possible to cause it to crash on rare occasion. For some publications, we would want to touch up the graphical output a bit or even use a different package.