By the way, after an episode of obsessive late night work, Dr.B's toots were 
made into Wiki
format at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Csound_TOOTS

Check it out.

> I don't know what else to say about making Csound easier to learn.  The
> Reference Manual is exactly that:  a reference.  I will point out that 
> Barry
> Vercoe's Csound tutorial and Dr. B's Toots used to be distributed as part 
> of
> the manual.  If we added a similar gentle introduction of significant 
> length
> to the Csound Ref. Man. maybe that would help.  (Maybe it wouldn't *shrug*
> -- Csound is tough :| ).