[PD] translate the Start Here! page

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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> From: Ed Kelly <morph_2016 at yahoo.co.uk>
>To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>; João Pais <jmmmpais at googlemail.com>; Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> 
>Cc: Pd List <pd-list at iem.at> 
>Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 5:48 PM
>Subject: Re: [PD] translate the Start Here! page
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>May I make a suggestion?
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>If PD Meta contained a list of objects, and a short description of each object's function, it could be dynamically parsed into an XML document, the PD object list we've been arguing about in FLOSSmanuals could be generated by a PHP script, and so always up-to-date. It could be part of the autobuild process for pd-extended to generate this file.
To generate such a libname-meta.pd in the first place you'd have to parse each *-help.pd inside the
libdir for the "DESCRIPTION values" comment; it's one less step to write those results directly into the XML 
document.


Btw-- if you do that, keep in mind that messages in the pd file format can span multiple lines, so
make sure you regsub the file as a whole (or the [pd META] subpatch) to grab everything from the
TAG to the un-escaped semicolon.


-Jonathan


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>>________________________________
>> From: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>>To: João Pais <jmmmpais at googlemail.com>; Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> 
>>Cc: Pd List <pd-list at iem.at> 
>>Sent: Monday, 7 January 2013, 22:23
>>Subject: Re: [PD] translate the Start Here! page
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>>----- Original Message -----
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>>> From: João Pais <jmmmpais at googlemail.com>
>>> To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>; Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>>> Cc: Pd List <pd-list at iem.at>
>>> Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 11:44 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [PD] translate the Start
Here! page
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>>>>  You can see the categories if you scroll down to the bottom of the search 
>>> plugin.
>>>>  They aren't hierarchical so there's no need for sub-categories.
>>>> 
>>>>  These are just categories I came up with off the top of my head.  Feel free 
>>> to
>>>>  suggest additions, deletions, better descriptions, or any objects I may 
>>> have
>>>>  missed.
>>> 
>>> I'll do that.
>>> 
>>> is there a way of reporting which libraries are missing the meta data? I can try 
>>> to ask their authors, or fill it in myself.
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>>If you're talking about LIBNAME-meta.pd, I'm not sure what the spec is for that.
>>Looks something like this:
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>>NAME libname
>>DESCRIPTION short description of library
>>VERSION 0.1 or whatever
>>AUTHOR Foo Bar
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>>But why do we need "NAME"?  The library name is just the directory
>>name. 
Also, some of the old ones have a "META blah blah" comment
>>and I'm not sure what its purpose is.
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>>But if you're talking missing the [pd META] inside each OBJECT-help.pd,
>>put those as bugs on the tracker.  Make sure to check it first as I've already
>>added several.
>>
>>-Jonathan
>>
>>> starting with the jmmmp library, I 
>>> know where that guy lives.
>>> 
>>> João
>>> 
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