On 24 Sep 2002 at 6:02, David H. Bailey wrote: > I think the biggest thing they could do to improve the documentation is > to bring back (either in print or as a PDF file) the old Encyclopedia > volume of the 3-volume documentation they had back with version 3. That > allowed a user to look things up by musical usage and it explained how > to do things. It was arranged alphabetically, not in groups of similar > items. Imagine if they added such a "chapter" to the current (or a > rewritten!) OLD, with links to other chapters/pages for more complete > instructions)!!!! > > It shouldn't be too hard to do, since they already have the current OLD > to link to, and they also have the old Encyclopedia volume to begin with > for bringing up to date.
But the real problem with the documentation is not really the content, but the lack of capabilities of Acrobat Reader. I hate every second I have to spend in Acrobat, because nothing about it works well. Everything about navigation is badly designed, and there is insufficient intelligent linking capability. And searching is too fraught with difficulties, as well. Surely HTML documentation would be much easier to produce and give much greater possibilities for designing interfaces to the information that are appropriate to the information itself. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
