Currently, the help patches in the reference folder have two ways of referring to the "all_about_x" patches:
- comments in the form of "docs/reference/all_about_x
- pddplink
The first option requires the user to open the patch manually, which is klunky because the last patch opened is probably different than the reference folder (not to mention the fact that the reference folder has hundreds of patches in it). The second option currently stinks because pddplink is buggy (at least on winxp: for example, I can't open the link listed in ctlin-help.pd).
But what about using the "all_about_x" patches as abstractions in the relevant help patches? So for example: under the "more_info" heading in float-help.pd, instead of the comment "all_about_data-types.pd", just have [all_about_data-types], which the user can open with one click. Those patches aren't particularly complex, so it shouldn't affect load time of the help patches very much (I think), but it would greatly improve navigation. And unlike pddplink, typos would be obvious because the abstraction wouldn't create.
What do people think?
-Jonathan