>________________________________ > From: Ed Kelly <morph_2...@yahoo.co.uk> >To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancs...@yahoo.com>; João Pais <jmmmp...@googlemail.com>; >Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at> >Cc: Pd List <pd-list@iem.at> >Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 5:48 PM >Subject: Re: [PD] translate the Start Here! page > > >May I make a suggestion? > > >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 > > >Ed > >Gemnotes-0.2: Live music notation for Pure Data, now with dynamics! >http://sharktracks.co.uk/ > > > >>________________________________ >> From: Jonathan Wilkes <jancs...@yahoo.com> >>To: João Pais <jmmmp...@googlemail.com>; Hans-Christoph Steiner >><h...@at.or.at> >>Cc: Pd List <pd-list@iem.at> >>Sent: Monday, 7 January 2013, 22:23 >>Subject: Re: [PD] translate the Start Here! page >> >>----- Original Message ----- >> >>> From: João Pais <jmmmp...@googlemail.com> >>> To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at>; Jonathan Wilkes >>> <jancs...@yahoo.com> >>> Cc: Pd List <pd-list@iem.at> >>> Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 11:44 AM >>> Subject: Re: [PD] translate the Start Here! page >>> >>>> 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. >> >>If you're talking about LIBNAME-meta.pd, I'm not sure what the spec is for >>that. >>Looks something like this: >> >>NAME libname >>DESCRIPTION short description of library >>VERSION 0.1 or whatever >>AUTHOR Foo Bar >> >>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. >> >>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 >>> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Pd-list@iem.at mailing list >>UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >>http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list