POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : 4.0 Feature discussion : Re: 4.0 Feature discussion Server Time
9 Aug 2024 17:21:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 4.0 Feature discussion  
From: ryan constantine
Date: 12 Sep 2000 05:35:31
Message: <39BDF8E9.16CADE69@yahoo.com>
it's even easier if you have a printed copy because your eyes and
fingers can scan faster than you can click through the help file.

Warp wrote:
> 
> Geoff Wedig <wed### [at] darwinepbicwruedu> wrote:
> : To be fair, finding the command line option that does what you want in the
> : docs is a bloody pain sometimes.  I *knew* that there was a option for this
> : and it took me over an hour to find it.  Similarly, I knew you could
> : continue a previous render, but it took posting to the group to find out
> : what the option was.
> 
>   I don't understand why it should be so difficult to find it in the docs.
> 
>   First you look at the section named "POV-Ray options". That looks like
> a promising name.
>   Under that there's a subsection names "Options reference". Well, it may
> not be the first place for a newbie to look, but there's no any better
> subsection than that.
>   Under that a subsection named "Output options" should be the most obvious.
>   Again another subsection named "Display output options" and there is
> the "Mosaic preview" section.
> 
>   A quite long set of suboptions, but it took about 10 seconds for me to
> find the correct one.
> 
> --
> main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
> ):_;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/


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