On Dec 4, 2007 8:19 AM, Steven Yi wrote: > Hi All, > > Well, the one thing I would say is that a bulk of the manual is > reference, while the other part act like a user's manual. I don't > think anyone is expected to read the entire reference section, but > rather lookup an opcode here and there when one needs it. One might > read most of the user's manual section in the beginning (sections I, > II, and II) to get an idea of how Csound works and families of opcodes > to get the big picture, then pick out opcodes here and there as one > needs it. One might read most of the section in the beginning straight through- once or twice. I personally use the opcode reference section far more often, and would probably only print that section if I were printing it. But I don't print it, personally. My father told me once, in a discussion about the US government and waste, that he had started sending memos as emails to save paper; and when he'd ask someone if they saw the email he sent, they'd turn around, print it out, and read it from the paper. > Just to note, I have 1257 opcodes listed when I do csound -z. This is > well have a similar number of pages for a manual if we include the > pages from the other PDF's there besides the reference (the > documentation there is split among a number of PDF's). I wonder how hard it would be to set up PDF's of individual sections, like "Signal Generators" or "Scanned Synthesis". Sounds like a job for a database almost. But I'd definitely have more need for some sections than others. -Chuckk -- http://www.badmuthahubbard.com