hi again,
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: ...
As for HTML docs, I don't understand why you want to separate the patches from the text. Yes, the text formatting abilities of Pd are
but you want them separate too... a reference page should be kept in a separate window anyway, so what is wrong about that window being controlled by another application?
However, my point is not about using a web browser, but about storing a reference page as a single parsable resource, instead of breaking it into several unparsable comments (same goes for any other type of longer self-contained text).
The way it is displayed is quite another matter. I am proposing the external browser, as the easiest, and the most old-fashioned-Pdish way to do it. Another option is including some kind of a browser widget in pd-gui, which you seem proposing:
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of that. With a little more work on the [comment] object, I think we could have all of the text formatting capabilities that we'd really need to make very nice, linked help patches with texts, all within Pd.
Krzysztof