Working on Octopus reference manual. Interested?

[Robert van der Kamp]

Hi all,

I started work on an Octopus reference manual, written with a pure functional approach, describing the most important (imo) functions on grid, page, track and step. The idea is to use it for quick lookup of how e.g. to pause a track, or forward a step, etc. I tend to forget most of the key combos after a while.

I’m still early in the process, but would anyone be interested?

I could release intermediate versions, like v0.1, v0.2, etc.

Cheers,
Robert

Post edited by: robert, at: 2010/05/23 11:30

[Angus Byrne]

An excellent idea. I’d be happy to any proofing

[Roger]

Yes, I did write a few pages of reference after the 1.62 software release, mainly to get used to the various Page Edit State(s), but I went on a bit…

I have attached it to this post.

Cheers
Roger

PS Sorry about the large typeface but I hate having to wear glasses in the studio (must be my age!!)

[file name=OctopusUsageNotes_1.pdf size=75778]http://genoqs.net/components/com_joomlaboard/uploaded/files/OctopusUsageNotes_1.pdf[/file]

[Barry J. Anderson]

Thanks for posting this! It is something that I think has been needed for quite some time. It will be a great help.

[Robert van der Kamp]

That’s a nice document Roger, thanks for sharing!

My manual is written in Voodoopad on the Mac as a wiki with hyperlinks. I plan to document as many funtions-on-objects (step, track, page…) as possible, and the information described in your document will also be covered.

I will then export the whole wiki into a single doc, maybe PDF, or RTF, or HTML. Dunno yet. This idea is it allows you to quickly do a search on things like "page clear", or "track transpose".

Cheers,
Robert

[Robert van der Kamp]

Here’s an image showing the topics produced do far. I’m around page 20 of the user manual, so still a lot of work to do.

Post edited by: robert, at: 2010/05/24 09:25

[Johann Aldons]

great idea – thanks for your hard work robert

[Angus Byrne]

robert wrote:

Quote:

That’s a nice document Roger, thanks for sharing!

My manual is written in Voodoopad on the Mac as a wiki with hyperlinks. I plan to document as many funtions-on-objects (step, track, page…) as possible, and the information described in your document will also be covered.

I will then export the whole wiki into a single doc, maybe PDF, or RTF, or HTML. Dunno yet. This idea is it allows you to quickly do a search on things like "page clear", or "track transpose".

Cheers,
Robert

Ah. I’m a PC type so wouldn’t be able to use this.

[Robert van der Kamp]

That’s why I’ll export the wiki in a format readable by all of us, like PDF or web.

Cheers,
Robert

[Angus Byrne]

robert wrote:

Quote:

That’s why I’ll export the wiki in a format readable by all of us, like PDF or web.

Cheers,
Robert

Nice one.

[matt hillier]

super cool idea , essential actually , i was goping to do my own up of this as i can never remeber how to do chord , strums , custom directions , softsteps and the deeper stuff.

[matt hillier]

ix wrote:

Quote:

super cool idea , essential actually , i was goping to do my own up of this as i can never remeber how to do chord , strums , custom directions , softsteps and the deeper stuff.

did we get anywhere with this , i might draw up a quick chart of keypress = functions soon so you cna simple think – chord = this this this…..step phrase = 1.2.3.4 but i guess its not that easy…..

[Chris Henkel]

…just to let you know that i am following your idea closely and that i am looking forward to what you will provide…

…thank you for your effort!…

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