Documentation

Everything you need to look up while writing a script lives here: the full English reference kept on this site, and the translated editions maintained by readers around the world.

English reference

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A packaged offline copy ships inside the installer and the portable archive, so the same pages work with no connection.

The manual is written in plain HTML and kept in the open documentation repository.

Spotted a mistake or a missing explanation? Open an entry on the issue tracker and describe what tripped you up.

Translated editions

Language Read online Offline copy Project home
Chinese (中文) Version 1 Version 2 Download v2 Repository
German (Deutsch) Version 1 Version 2 Download v1 Download v2 Repository
Japanese (日本語) Version 2 Repository
Korean (한국어) Version 1 Download v1 Repository
Portuguese (Português) Version 1 Repository

Translations move at the pace of the volunteers behind them, so a page may lag a release or two behind the English text.

Want to help translate? Follow a project link above, or read the shared contributor notes.

Why the pages need JavaScript

The reference behaves less like a static site and more like a desktop help viewer, and that behaviour is built with a small amount of JavaScript. It is switched on by default in every mainstream browser; leaving it on gives you the full experience.

Borrowed from classic help files, the extras include: