On Jan 6, 2007, at 1:44 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Kyle Klipowicz wrote:
I wish that individual files would have their own separate help
files quite often. Say, when getting help for ctrlin or midiin
(or others of their ilk), it's quite annoying to new (and more
seasoned) users to get detailed information on these objects.While I agree that this particular helpfile could be somewhat more
than just hands-on guess-what-this-is-for, I believe that breaking
it down would remove the big picture: it would deemphasize the
relationships, the patterns. Those classes are better explained as
a group because half of them are opposite of the other half and
each pair of opposites shares some behaviour with another pair.
e.g. I can organise those in a grid like[ctlin] [notein] [ctlout] [noteout]
And so, if I teach those, why would I want to teach each of them as
if it lived in a bubble, when I could teach the rows and columns of
that grid, the in-ness, the out-ness, the ctl-ness and the note- ness of those things?
No one said anything about ignoring other objects. You should any
other object to make good examples, that's the important part. And
each help file should highlight the object in question and the
specifics of that object.
.hc
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