[PD] "get" method for Pd

Jonathan Wilkes jancsika at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 18 22:43:26 CET 2011





----- Original Message -----
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> Cc: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>; "pd-list at iem.at" <pd-list at iem.at>; Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu>; IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 4:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] "get" method for Pd
> 
> Le 2011-11-17 à 22:24:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
> 
>>  You think that ~2300 words is not particularly large for a help file?  
> That's now long Tcl's info help is.  I don't think any Pd help patch 
> has anywhere close to 2300 words.
> 
> wc -w "#convolve-help.pd" says 3086, but counting only the contents of 
> the comments, it's 1596. To be fair, however, you have to count the code 
> examples, and doc elements that aren't plain comments, so it's probably 
> closer to 2000.
> 
> http://gridflow.ca/help/%23convolve-help.html
> 
> But that's because it contains a whole tutorial, too. Otherwise, the design 
> of the thing is quite simple.
> 
> I don't think that 2300 words (or 3600 words for more recent docs) is that 
> large. A hardcopy of a successful book such as Tolstoï's War and Peace has 
> 560000 words and doesn't even come with a Ctrl+f feature.

Did you make a bug report?

-Jonathan

> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> | Mathieu BOUCHARD ----- téléphone : +1.514.383.3801 ----- Montréal, QC
> 



More information about the Pd-list mailing list