POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Request for assistance with documentation : Re: Proposal to expand the documentation about Arrays Server Time
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  Re: Proposal to expand the documentation about Arrays  
From: Jim Holsenback
Date: 21 Jan 2011 07:00:44
Message: <4d39756c$1@news.povray.org>
On 01/21/2011 04:43 AM, Jaap Frank wrote:
>> "Jim Holsenback"  schreef in bericht news:4d38b450$1@news.povray.org...
>>
>> On 01/20/2011 11:46 AM, Warp wrote:
>>>   If it has to be specified explicitly, I don't think it deserves more
>>> than a single sentence in the documentation (something along the lines
>>> of "you can create a multidimensional array by making an array of
>>> arrays").
>>>
>>
>> it's been done ...
> 
> Can you change that in "you can create a multidimensional or
>                                        multivariable array by making an
> array of arrays"
> because the multi variable part is the interesting tric.

maybe it's a language thing but i think were talking semantics here ...
i think multidimensional is the correct term

> By the way, I've looked at the wiki, but you have to do that in
> html-style I
> suppose and I'm not familiar with html or is there an easy way to do that.

for the documentation we mix wiki markup with html markup for
convenience, because eventually it ALL gets translated to html for the
distribution doc sets, however a how to article can be done all be done
in wiki markup it you wish. it's pretty easy once you get the hang of it

here the very basics:
http://wiki.povray.org/content/Help:Editing

and more details:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing_pages

and of particular interest the Help:Formatting section


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