<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I think what implying is that maybe Pd *doesn’t* need to handle it. Simply, Pd could open a local webpage, similar to how the Processing “Find in reference” context menu option works when highlighting a function in the editor.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Not to say you/we can’t work out a file format/system to handle alot of this, but I’m thinking that html reference already works well for many other contexts an doesn’t require building new formats/systems to solve alot of the same problems.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 26, 2016, at 2:08 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <<a href="mailto:jancsika@yahoo.com" class="">jancsika@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class="">html could be leveraged, but I'm really looking for a spec for how Pd <br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class="">handles it. Is it a GUI widget? An abstraction? A canvas method? A new <br class=""></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456519552262_4929" dir="ltr" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456519552262_4954" class="">"#" directive?</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456519552262_4955" dir="ltr" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456519552262_4954" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456519552262_5021" dir="ltr" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456519552262_4954" class="">Do the translations get saved along with the help patch, or are they stored in <br class=""></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456519552262_5022" dir="ltr" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456519552262_4954" class="">a directory and fetched when needed? Etc.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456519552262_5055" dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456519552262_4954" class=""></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456519552262_5094" dir="ltr" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456519552262_4954" class="">-Jonathan<br class=""> </span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br class=""><br class=""></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""> <div dir="ltr" class=""><font face="Arial" size="2" class=""> On Friday, February 26, 2016 1:02 PM, Dan Wilcox <<a href="mailto:danomatika@gmail.com" class="">danomatika@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></font></div> <br class=""><br class=""> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv2931128854" class=""><div class=""><div class="yiv2931128854"><blockquote type="cite" class="yiv2931128854"><div class="yiv2931128854" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yiv2931128854yui_3_16_0_1_1456507563708_9484" dir="ltr" class="yiv2931128854">I'll implement any *clear* spec for multi-language help patches someone comes up <br class="yiv2931128854"></div><div dir="ltr" class="yiv2931128854">with with the following constraints:</div><div id="yiv2931128854yui_3_16_0_1_1456507563708_9694" dir="ltr" class="yiv2931128854">1. it separates design from content.</div><div id="yiv2931128854yui_3_16_0_1_1456507563708_9695" dir="ltr" class="yiv2931128854">2. in only requires documentation writers to care about content.</div><div id="yiv2931128854yui_3_16_0_1_1456507563708_9560" dir="ltr" class="yiv2931128854">3. it does not pigeonhole help patches into having a single, ugly design</div><div id="yiv2931128854yui_3_16_0_1_1456507563708_9559" dir="ltr" class="yiv2931128854">4. documentation writers will be guaranteed that whatever they write, it won't <br class="yiv2931128854"></div><div id="yiv2931128854yui_3_16_0_1_1456507563708_9544" dir="ltr" class="yiv2931128854">overlap patch content.</div><div id="yiv2931128854yui_3_16_0_1_1456507563708_9542" dir="ltr" class="yiv2931128854">5. it is maintainable and scalable<br class="yiv2931128854"></div></div></blockquote></div><div class="yiv2931128854"><div class="yiv2931128854" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" class="yiv2931128854"><br class="yiv2931128854"></div></div></div>Sounds like .html.<div class="yiv2931128854"><br class="yiv2931128854"><div class="yiv2931128854">
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