On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, joe wrote:

> Wow the author himself :) thanks!
>
> Can I make a suggestion for the documentation? I've used analog 3 times
> since 1998 and each time I struggled with it a bit, and I think I know
> how to make it quite easier to learn.
>
> The problem for me each time is that all the commands relevant to one
> report section are scattered throughout the docs. If I am trying to
> debug the ref section, for example, there's quite a few commands I need
> to know about:
>
> [snip]
>
> And what they all do isn't entirely clear at first blush. I think it
> would be very helpful to have a section in the quick reference page (or
> an additional page) that shows all the commands broken into groups by
> the report they affect, and a section for all the meta-commands that
> apply to all sections (allchart, barstyle, etc.).
>

There is a configuration file in the examples folder which does this.

-- 
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  the question of whether a submarine can swim."  (Edsger W. Dijkstra)
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