Ken, I think I know what he means. You are starting out learning Rev, and you have a problem of some sort that goes beyond the tutorial materials and whose solution is going to involve using a bunch of different features in the correct way together.
Lets say its my own case: this large file that I'm trying to do a nice report from, but it could be anything. You simply do not know what to start to think of using. As soon as someone says to you, use X Y Z, its almost not a problem any more, because the dictionary entries about them, if you know they are what you need, will let you figure out how to use them. But without knowing this, you end up searching for things that sound like they may be relevant, but each time you find one, you have no idea whether it is, or which option on it it. For instance, Jim Ault a while back suggested using filter for one of my tasks. I'd never thought of it. Maybe stupid, but hadn't. As soon as I know to use that, the problem is over and the docs are perfect. Before that, I have to go through, find filter, read all the options, realize its the thing that's needed... But I'm doing this along with reading about find, match, offset, if, switch, repeat, arrays, custom properties, a whole bunch of stuff, and without even knowing whether one of them in combination with something else will do what's needed. You'd get in the same situation with Linux or Unix if all you had was the Man pages on commands. But fortunately we have the cookbooks, like Carla's, which go the reverse way: here is a problem, here is step by step the various things you use. I guess no-one is very interested in it, but I still believe it would be a huge asset to promoting the platform if it existed. Peter _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
