Re: [PD] working with integers

2021-05-25 Thread cyrille henry
Le 25/05/2021 à 23:16, ro...@dds.nl a écrit : hi, because of the problems i had with calculations using floating point math, and following Roman's advice, i changed to integer math. however that's easier said then done. i'm running again into an unexpected limitation: 32-bits can

[PD] working with integers

2021-05-25 Thread rolfm
hi, because of the problems i had with calculations using floating point math, and following Roman's advice, i changed to integer math. however that's easier said then done. i'm running again into an unexpected limitation: 32-bits can represent signed integers upto 2.147...billion.

Re: [PD] Patterns for Pd Documentation

2021-05-25 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
By the way, one thing that is very useful for ELSE's help files is my [display] object (similar to Extended's [PRINT] from 'pddp') that can print any data from the outlets right on the patch, which is something people seem to hope for in a friendlier documentation - [display] also flashes when

Re: [PD] Patterns for Pd Documentation

2021-05-25 Thread hans w. koch
as someone using pd in teaching in a german art academy context, i agree, that sometimes the assumption that english = international is plain wrong (e.g. we have many korean students, for whom german is the second language and which are quite lost with english). but i would like you to consider

Re: [PD] Patterns for Pd Documentation

2021-05-25 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
Em ter., 25 de mai. de 2021 às 05:50, Dan Wilcox escreveu: > Does anyone have a link, etc to the pddoc project/external from > Pd-extended? > I feel a lot of this was already approached over 10 years ago but not > ported over into Pd vanilla. It might be worth checking it out before > starting

Re: [PD] Patterns for Pd Documentation

2021-05-25 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Tue, 2021-05-25 at 12:41 -0300, Esteban Viveros wrote: > > > About the point 2. It is addressed to open the scope of feedbacks. I > think that the effort to create a new standard for documentation > should cover as many opinions as possible at first (like this > one). It's like a brainstorm.

Re: [PD] Patterns for Pd Documentation

2021-05-25 Thread Esteban Viveros
> > Reading this question makes me feel uncomfortable. How would defining > above criteria shape the way the documentation is going to be built? > And isn't using that criteria to define the shape presumptuous, forcing > you and me to make assumptions about groups of people you're/I'm not > part

Re: [PD] Patterns for Pd Documentation

2021-05-25 Thread Esteban Viveros
Thank you Dan for the tips! Right now I think the discussion of documentation is centralized in educational practice inside academic environment. I had contact with the Pd in this environment but now I see a lot of people having contact with Pd inside free workshops, which brought other ways to

Re: [PD] Patterns for Pd Documentation

2021-05-25 Thread Roman Haefeli
Hi On Mon, 2021-05-24 at 20:49 -0300, Esteban Viveros wrote: > 1. What is the audience that you believe will make use of the Pd > documentation? Things like, advanced english speakers, academics, the > gender, low/high earning power, if they are programmers, musicians, > open source people,

Re: [PD] Patterns for Pd Documentation

2021-05-25 Thread Dan Wilcox
Does anyone have a link, etc to the pddoc project/external from Pd-extended? I feel a lot of this was already approached over 10 years ago but not ported over into Pd vanilla. It might be worth checking it out before starting from scratch. Also, keep in mind that old habits may be hard to break