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Doc: Describe selecting the help viewer backend

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You can switch the help viewer backend if you have issues
with the current one.

Change-Id: I0b0697980259a4d14b6e694faff0afed14040556
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To switch to the editor context when you close the last help page, select
the \uicontrol {Return to editor on closing the last page} check box.
\section1 Selecting the Help Viewer Backend
The help viewer backend determines the style sheet that is used to display
the help files. A help viewer backend that is based on the \l {QTextBrowser}
is used by default. However, it has several issues that have been fixed when
using litehtml as the help viewer backend.
On \macos, you can also use a help viewer backend that is based on the
system WebView component.
To switch the help viewer backend:
\list 1
\li Select \uicontrol Tools > \uicontrol Options > \uicontrol Help >
\uicontrol General.
\li In the \uicontrol {Viewer backend} field, select a viewer backend.
\li Reload the help page to take the new backend to use.
\endlist
\section1 Viewing Function Tooltips
To hide function tooltips by default, select \uicontrol Tools >