Hi! Actually I just started porting some patches that I did with MaxMSP, and one of those, that I needed to play microtonal music and divide the octave in more than 12 equal part needed an expr as:
expr pow(2,$f1)
maybe there are other ways to write a division at the exponent, but this is the reason why I would like to type a backslash. Thanks and greetings
Libero
-- Original Message -- To: libero.mureddu3@fastwebnet.it Subject: Re: [PD] newbie question about "dropped" Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:58:06 +0200 (CEST) From: zmoelnig@iem.at Cc: pd-list@iem.at
Zitiere libero.mureddu3@fastwebnet.it:
Hello! I'm a new user of pure-data. I'm using the last Hans-Christoph Steiner version Pd-0.38-2hcs0 on a ibook g3 800, and I cannot put a backslash in a patch. I receive the message "dropped".
since you get such a nice message, you might eventually wonder whether this behaviour is on purpose. and indeed it is.
why would anybody want to use backslashes ? most likely, even with turning the dropping off by hacking the source code, you will not be able to use it as an escape character. in the current state of pd, escaping characters is totally unresolved.
apart from that, i am an oldie user and i never really needed to type backslashes (but i admit that it might be weird when you first come to it)
mfg.a.dsr IOhannes