OK - that should be sufficient. (I knew I had run across additional data
regarding -m *somewhere*.)

Three guesses as to where in the help file I looked - and the first two
guesses don't count. Yes, it is a bit confusing.

As a general principle, I'd hope the help file/reference manual could be
better cross-referenced and organized by topic. Also, using more common
terminology. For example, I'd be looking for something like "render time" or
"compile duration." Instead the docs talk about "benchmark information" -
which I'd never think to search under. Oh well....

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message -----
From: "Istvan Varga" 
To: 
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Csnd] Realtime Csound5


> On Thursday 02 March 2006 22:17, Art Hunkins wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Istvan. I'm glad *someone* remembers these things!
> >
> > I also see that this is the default in .csoundrc - good idea. (I
overrode
> > this default in , which is why I didn't get the value
displayed.)
> >
> > Could someone please add this fact (adding 128 to -m for render time
> > display) to the help docs?
>
> The -m flags are displayed by 'csound --help', although without detailed
> explanation:
>
> -m N    tty message level. Sum of:
>                 1=note amps, 2=out-of-range msg, 4=warnings
>                 0/32/64/96=note amp format (raw,dB,colors)
>                 128=print benchmark information
>
> The HTML manual includes this information as well, but it is somewhat
> confusing as -m is documented twice. In the first case, the manual only
> mentions the old 1, 2, and 4 flags, while the more recent additions are
> listed later in "Csound5 Command-line Flags":
>
> -m NUM, --messagelevel=NUM
>     Message level for standard (terminal) output. Takes the sum of any of
>     the following values:
>         o 1 = note amplitude messages
>         o 2 = samples out of range message
>         o 4 = warning messages
>         o 128 = print benchmark information
>     And exactly one of these to select note amplitude format:
>         o 0 = raw amplitudes
>         o 32 = dB, no colors
>         o 64 = dB, out of range highlighted with red
>         o 96 = dB, all colors
>
> Note: color displays on the console are not supported on Windows.
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