Em 20/02/2012, às 21:02, Everton Vieira escreveu:

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> Em 20/02/2012, às 19:46, waldo kitty escreveu:
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>> On 2/20/2012 10:59, Everton Vieira wrote:
>>> Has been felt need for examples in the documentation.
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>> i haven't yet gotten to this stage of my stack of "round to its" (joke 
>> "getting around to it") and this seems ok time... not only are examples 
>> needed but also sample output... i have been digging in the help, as many 
>> know, trying to get back my "coding legs" and have found examples that 
>> didn't have any output so that one could see what the result would be with 
>> certain input... i've also seen examples that said something to the effect 
>> of "see this example over here" which took you to another help item that did 
>> actually have some example code that may or may not contain the topic you 
>> were looking at before... and again, there is the need for sample output 
>> from sample input...
>> 
>> not only should these examples be in/on the wiki, but they should also be in 
>> the offline local documentation...
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> Some parts of the wiki could be generated by the same database that could 
> also generate the offline help.  I`m not well aware of the development of the 
> help system but i bet some is been done in this way. After all, is far well 
> know the benefits of have centralized data. And i`m not aware how the help 
> data are been stored, but if it is like a relational database then would be 
> possible to store more than one example for each case, and more, should be 
> store also who contributed with that example and when. Is important that the 
> work of a friend be acknowledge. And that information should be elegantly 
> showed on offline help and also online.

Now, to make easy and secure that kind of contribution, i bet is a challenge.

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>> offline local documentation being the most important (IMhO)...
>> 
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