[PD] Pd META: Author/Help Patch Authors

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Tue, 9/1/09, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:

> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> Subject: Re: [PD] Pd META: Author/Help Patch Authors
> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 4:05 PM
> 
> On Sep 1, 2009, at 12:41 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Tue, 9/1/09, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> >> Subject: Re: [PD] Pd META: Author/Help Patch
> Authors
> >> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> >> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> >> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 5:00 AM
> >> 
> >> It is Pd, so I think we should at least make an
> effort to
> >> make things easy to parse in Pd.  I tried
> your parser
> >> using data that is probably closer to what we
> might use, and
> >> it didn't work at all.   If someone
> can get a
> >> Pd parser working that can handle the commas well,
> then I
> >> would be OK using commas in the meta data format.
> >> 
> >> Here's my data:
> >> tags - pure data, frequency modulation, synthesis
> > 
> > Hi Hans,
> >     I wouldn't expect my example
> to work as a general solution.  If you
> > want a general solution, I'd be happy to take a stab
> at it, but you
> > haven't said what you want Pd to do with the data
> example you've provided
> > above.
> 
> Ah, sorry, I thought you'd followed the object_db.tcl
> plugin discussion and the [pd META] discussion with
> Frank.  Basically, the object_db.tcl plugin builds a
> multilevel menu for finding objects based on tags.  I'm
> am sure people will think of other uses for the tags. 
> Frank suggested using comma separated tags in his [pd
> REFERENCE] format, the PDDP group came to the conclusion
> that the meta data should be easily parsable by Pd, and I
> still think that's a good idea.
> 
> So the idea is to have every help patch have a [pd META]
> subpatch, and in it, have a comment with tags.
> 
> .hc

Oh, ok.  I'll have a look at that discussion.

-Jonathan