On 6/7/2010 2:00 PM, Dan Wilcox wrote:

On Jun 7, 2010, at 9:04 PM, Jim Aikin wrote:

I think that would probably be the way to go with Pd documentation as well -- some sort of handbook that gives users step-by-step instructions on all of the basic things they will need or want to do when getting started. Once they're up and running, they will be able to find more advanced information wherever it's tucked away.

You mean like Johannes Kreidler's Programming Electronic Music in Pd?

Could be. I'll have a look at it -- thanks for the link. In general, however, I would suggest that a website-based multi-page manual is always a bad idea, for two reasons: First, because it's not searchable. Second, because it's an invitation to the author to jumble things up and leave some pages blank "to be filled in later." This is not a criticism of Kreidler's work, which I haven't read, it's just a general observation based on other things I've seen.

What one wants, I think, is a single PDF file that, in the absence of an index, can be searched for text strings, and that is conceived and written in a linear, coherent manner.

--JA