glossary or Table of Contents or Index for manual?
some users say that they cannot find what they want in the manual. i think this is because there are too many words that decsribe the same thing. <ekkaia> the problem with the manual is that you have to know what your doing ;P i propose a glossary or index or table of contents at the end of the manual which says: fast forward or seek or jump or skip or advance or goto: see -ss keep video window or stay or one window or continue: see -fixed-vo flashing screen or green pink screen see -colorkey because a user will only search for one or two words that he thinks would describe what he is looking for. this is inheritenly a problem with anyone who does searching. you get better results if you try different words. any thoughts? -compn
Hi, On 12/25/05, compn <tempn@twmi.rr.com> wrote:
some users say that they cannot find what they want in the manual. i think this is because there are too many words that decsribe the same thing.
<ekkaia> the problem with the manual is that you have to know what your doing ;P
i propose a glossary or index or table of contents at the end of the manual which says:
fast forward or seek or jump or skip or advance or goto: see -ss
keep video window or stay or one window or continue: see -fixed-vo
flashing screen or green pink screen see -colorkey
because a user will only search for one or two words that he thinks would describe what he is looking for. this is inheritenly a problem with anyone who does searching. you get better results if you try different words.
any thoughts?
I like the idea, although I think that the man page is already so huge that I don't think it would be wise to add some more stuff to it (plus, I don't quite have quite enough time to do it). Guillaume -- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) MPlayer's doc is offline. Find some fresh one here: http://tuxrip.free.fr//MPlayer-DOCS-HTML/en/ http://tuxrip.free.fr//MPlayer-DOCS-HTML/fr/
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 12:32:31PM -0500, compn wrote:
some users say that they cannot find what they want in the manual. i think this is because there are too many words that decsribe the same thing.
<ekkaia> the problem with the manual is that you have to know what your doing ;P
i propose a glossary or index or table of contents at the end of the manual which says:
fast forward or seek or jump or skip or advance or goto: see -ss
keep video window or stay or one window or continue: see -fixed-vo
flashing screen or green pink screen see -colorkey
because a user will only search for one or two words that he thinks would describe what he is looking for. this is inheritenly a problem with anyone who does searching. you get better results if you try different words.
any thoughts?
It's somewhere on the TODO, but that list is so awfully long... Diego
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