Documentation & Books

[Marian Petrides]

Richard

My immediate thought was the same as yours.  But I was readily able to 
reproduce Mark's observation.  From the roadmap, just go to Transcript 
Dictionary.  There is a search box at the top. Enter "array." What do 
you get?   Nada, nil, nichts, nothing.

The point being that the cognoscenti know to use the Search 
Documentation tool, but a rank beginner would not.

I think Mark's point was that it is not inherently obvious that using 
Search Documentation will give you a lot more hits than searching the 
dictionary.

M


On Jul 7, 2004, at 3:18 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Mark Wieder wrote:
>
> > Richard-
> >
> > Wednesday, July 7, 2004, 8:23:43 AM, you wrote:
> >
> > RG> A majority of the items reported here as MIA can be found with 
> the
> > RG> Search Documentation tool using common terminology to describe
> > RG> them. Note that I didn't say "all", but cutting the number of
> > RG> unanswered questions by more than half in one move isn't bad.
> >
> > Another good example is the use of arrays in rev. This is a topic
> > which is quite confusing and looking in the documentation for the 
> word
> > "array" comes up with nothing.
>
> How did you look for that?
>
> > Running the search tool comes up with
> > more, but there's no apparent link from the dictionary to the search
> > tool, and no indication that the search tool might come up with more
> > information.
>
> Except to try it.
>
> In the Search Documentation tool there are 69 hits for "array", and 19 
> for "arrays".
>
> -- 
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation
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