CompuServe Messages

1. I'd rate the current docs about 9. 2. I would very much like to have some of the docs on on-line help. 3. Most important would be a comprehensive, hyper-text on-line index which provides the relevant page number in the printed docs. Beyond that I think it would be nice to have basic information available on-line; perhaps, again, with references to the printed manual's page number "for more help." If you plan to have complete information on-line, _then_ a valuable feature would be to have EXAMPLES whenever appropriate. I can learn very quickly seeing an example of how to do something instead of reading through pages of text to extract the information I need. One place in the current docs (and in the R2 docs) which badly needs a few simple examples is the "Command Line and Batch Rendering" section of the Advanced User Guide. I spent HOURS trying to figure out which switches I needed to include for batch rendering. A few examples simply showing several command line setups with arrows explaining each of the switches and boldface for the switches which are mandatory are really needed. 4. I don't think the on-line help should include all the detailed procedural instructions like the printed docs. It's generally too hard to read that much stuff on line. I don't know what you're contemplating but we DO need the printed, paper docs. Don't ever give them up. (I don't care what MS does!) Alec Jason