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Index Needed In Rebol Users Guide

 [1/2] from: louisaturk::eudoramail::com at: 12-Jan-2002 15:02


Carl, I'm glad you brought this up. One of the biggest aggravations in trying to learn rebol is not having an index in the printed User Guide. A really good index is vital in my opinion. I have to bring up an on-line version and run a search. That works fine if I am at my computer, but I learn best relaxing in a nice overstuffed chair with my feet up. I strongly hope the need edition of the users guide will have a good index. It would also be fine with me for the manual to be set in slightly smaller type so that sample scripts don't have to be split across pages. But then I have good eyes for seeing up close. Other's might not like this. But I think everyone would like to have a really good (complete) index. By the way does anyone know when the next edition will be coming out? Louis At 11:47 AM 1/11/2002 +1200, you wrote:

 [2/2] from: carl:cybercraft at: 13-Jan-2002 20:16


On 13-Jan-02, Dr. Louis A. Turk wrote:
> Carl, > I'm glad you brought this up. One of the biggest aggravations in
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> with my feet up. I strongly hope the need edition of the users guide > will have a good index.
I've thought of writing a script to parse the HTML version of the guide and somehow generate an index from that, but I'm sure it's a lot easier to say than do, and how you'd get the book's page numbers from the HTML version I wouldn't know - perhaps you'd have to take the PDF version into account as well. Would be an interesting exercise, but I would've much prefered to just spend a few extra dollars for a book with an index.
> It would also be fine with me for the manual to be set in slightly > smaller type so that sample scripts don't have to be split across
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> By the way does anyone know when the next edition will be coming > out?
The last mention on this list from RT that I can remember was that they were typing as fast as they could on a View guide, but that was many, many (full) moons ago. I assume it'll appear after the next View makes an appearance. (But please don't ask when that'll be:)
> Louis > At 11:47 AM 1/11/2002 +1200, you wrote: >> The few experiments I did seemed to indicate you'd save about 1 >> line in ten. I wonder how much shorter it would've made the Core >> User Guide? Save enough pages to give it an index with no extra >> cost perhaps? (;
-- Carl Read
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