Am 08.04.2010 11:36, schrieb Jim Holsenback:

> Thanks for the sanity check! This whole section is going to be a
> challenge to correct as it seems to be full of things that are simply
> don't apply any more ... for instance in the Display Hardware Settings
> section (a couple of sections up from the GIF passage) I see:
>
> "The Display_Gamma=n.n setting is not available as a command-line switch"
>
> On my Linux machine I have a bash script that invokes povray with that
> very same command-line switch ... ha-ha sometimes I feel like I've bitten
> off more than I can chew!

That statement should actually be interpreted as: "The Display_Gamma=n.n 
setting does not have a command-line switch equivalent" (i.e. there's no 
"+FOOn.n" that does the same as "Display_Gamma=n.n")

I think this distinction between command line switches and INI file 
settings is pretty ugly - and is complicated by the fact that using INI 
file settings on the command line may or may not work, depending on the 
current phase of the moon, solar spot activity, and whether the user 
wears green socks on tuesdays.

I'd rather have the documentation speak of "settings" and "shorthand 
settings" (or something along these lines), have it mention that the 
former can only be used one per line in INI files and are currently not 
officially supported on the command line, and that's it.

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