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| | | hi folks, a few days ago I had a discussion with Chris Dee about the two sections of reference-pages on ldraw.org. to me it is not comprehensible why the general reference page has a direct link at the homepage, while the more useful specifications (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | | | | Re: Downloadable Handbook? —Thomas Wölk
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| | | | | hear hear! and while you're at it please shove in some basic tutorials and bake them crispy transportable so i can easily provide my not online nephews (my sister couldn't afford all her children playing online all the time) with the basic stuff. (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | | | | Re: Downloadable Handbook? —Jacob Sparre Andersen
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| | | | | (...) You are very welcome to convert the "Part Tracker Reference" to PDF format[1] and send it to me, so I can put it somewhere on the LDraw.org web site. Play well, Jacob 1) ".doc" files are NOT welcome on the server that hosts the LDraw.org web (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | | | | | | Re: Downloadable Handbook? —Willy Tschager
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| | | | | | hi jacob (...) Okay, I'll do my best ,but I'll take a little bit 'cos I have never worked with acrobat. willy (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Downloadable Handbook? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) If you know MSWord, you can still use it despite Jacob's ban... there is a facility within Acrobat to import and convert Word docs, I believe, and save them as .pdf files... Do your composition in a widely accepted and hugely popular (but (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Downloadable Handbook? —Jeroen de Haan
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| | | | | | I know I'm not the person to announce this but there is a PDF version ( (URL) direct link) available at (URL) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Downloadable Handbook? —Chris Dee
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| | | | | | (...) Extremely unfortunate timing, as I have just updated the html version to incorporate the new primitives in Parts Update 2002-05. Is this easy to regenerate? Chris (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Downloadable Handbook? —Chris Dee
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| | | | | | (...) Thanks to Jeroen, the pdf is now in step with the html. Chris (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | | | | Re: Downloadable Handbook? —Tim Courtney
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| | | | The PT and the PT reference pages are not my responsibility, but I have suggested a few times that they be cross-linked with the general reference pages. My original plan for the re-organization of the site was that all reference docs would go under (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | | | | | Re: Downloadable Handbook? —Chris Dee
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| | | | (...) reference-pages on ldraw.org. to me it is not (...) homepage, while the more useful specifications for (...) pdf-file and make it downloadable to get a sort of (...) Tim In my view most of the material Willy is speaking of is not really "PT (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | | | | | Re: Downloadable Handbook? —Tim Courtney
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| | | | Hey Chris - (...) Ok. (...) It should probably go under specs/ - there's a category on the page called Project Standards. Would it fit there? You can feel free to create another section under specs/ or another directory under reference/ if it really (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | | | | | Re: Downloadable Handbook? —Chris Dee
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| | | | (...) But this isn't Parts Tracker stuff - it is Parts Authoring stuff. I don't think it would be easy for newbies to find under "Specifications" - so I'd rather see a new "Part Authoring" link on (URL) we create a new subdirectory "/authoring", are (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | | | | | Re: Downloadable Handbook? —Willy Tschager
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| | | | | (...) I got "BFC certified" in october (thanks zanette) and now I'm struggling with conditional lines after my minifig helmet got a hold-vote on the PT. therefore I think I'm the ideal newbie. what we need is the following: * Header-standard: Name, (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | | | | | Re: Downloadable Handbook? —Tim Courtney
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| | | | (...) I don't touch that either ;-) (...) You guys can go ahead and publish without my review there. Just please try to keep the pages within the existing format and use the appropriate include files. (...) That's OK. (...) sym-link over to that (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | | | | | Re: Downloadable Handbook? —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) I agree. (...) Urgh. It might be easier to reformat all the existing /reference/ content to use the /library/ ssi scheme... ;) (...) Definitely, there should be cross-linking both ways. (...) I didn't see anything that seemed to belong under (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | | | | | Re: Downloadable Handbook? —Tim Courtney
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| | | | (...) I know I eventually wanted to reformat the whole site that way, but was going to do it piece at a time. So, feel free. (...) You can break down the /reference/faq/ page into categories... would that work? -Tim (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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