CompuServe Messages

Humble opinions on docs: 1) Usefulness of current 3DS hardcopy: 9.6125 (UNSOLICITED COMMENT: The docs would be dang near perfect with a "Secrets of the Masters" supplement based on excerpts from the 3DS demo video tape) 2) Verbose, as requested… I dislike online documentation escalation if hardcopy suffers. You can't hang colored Post-it tabs out of key sections, you can't scribble notes in the margins, you can't correct doc errors, and you can't sneak it into boring staff meetings. <g> (Does my dept. head read this?) You also can't read or study online docs if the computer is down, rendering, or <gasp> busy with some other program. In the case where the hardcopy quality does not suffer, I like online documentation if it is complete and searchable, includes graphics, includes cut-and-paste where appropriate (for example, like MathCAD or MS languages), is hyper browsable, and it includes page number references to the hardcopy docs. I do not find current help hints in 3DSr3 to be useful, however they may be very useful to someone beginning to learn the program. They should also be VERY useful for someone using a cracked copy of 3DS. The only "online" things that makes sense to me are: A) a full blown CD-ROM based Help done right (full hypertext, with online flics, clipable 3D objects, wow tutorials with images of results,…) Also harder to bootleg. and/or B) little reference pointers to the hardcopy. 3) Suitable for online: The index (see 2B above). 4) Unsuitable: The sole reference, tutorial, and installation manuals. For those who won't read books, let'm watch TV. J K J