The idea of an HTML PDDP sounds great. It will require a TclTK browser widget in Pd, a pddpserver, and a Pd reference done in Docbook. None of these exist and AFAIK, no one is working on these things. HTML/Docbook would undoubtedly produce more flexibility in formatting, but we can make a decently formatted reference with what we have now with all of the functionality (except for maybe clickable URLs in Pd, but that shouldn't be too hard to implement, right?).

It would not take much work to make some PDDP templates (reference/-help.pd, examples, and all_about_) and reformat the content that we have now, and we'd have the beginnings of a very functional help/reference for Pd.

I know what I propose is not the ideal solution, but it is a realistic one, and one that is already underway. The idea for PDDP started in 2002, its obviously not moving fast. So I think it makes a lot of sense to have a less than perfect system now rather than wait years more for a perfect one. And then we can learn from the first experience how to better implement the perfect system. Who was it that said you have to implement the program in order to know how to implement it?

.hc

On May 1, 2005, at 12:30 PM, Krzysztof Czaja wrote:

Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either change them, or perish. -William Carlos Williams