how to find docs

[Francesco Potortì]

This is a basic question on finding docs.

I was looking for a way to set the values of tic marks, and I remembered
having done that in the past.  So I looked in the manual for tic, tics,
tic marks, and found nothing interesting.

So I thought it should have been a function in some package related to
plotting and looked in
<http://octave.sourceforge.net/functions_by_package.php>, but found
nothing: no plot package, and all the (many dozens) string match with
"plot" were not interesting.

As a last resort, I listed all my installed packages and found the plot
package.  Doing a pkg describe -verbose plot foowed by help tics did the
trick.

Two things: why is not the plot package included in
<http://octave.sourceforge.net/functions_by_package.php> ?

Could I have followed a quicker path for finding out what I was looking
for, short of resorting to web searching?

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