Re: st: Re: Documentation (was: Object oriented help files (and Tabling: anagenda))

["b. water" <barleywater@hotmail.com>]

i too use the same method as thomas steichen. works well. over time i would 
build up collection of graphs and commands used to generate them.

cheers,
bw




> From: "Steichen" <steichen@triad.rr.com>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Subject: st: Re: Documentation (was: Object oriented help files (and 
> Tabling: an agenda))
> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 09:02:33 -0400
>
> Fred Wolfe writes (in part):
>
> > I think that while additional documentation is on the mark (particularly
> > for documentation mavens [an OK word according to the OED], of which I 
> am
> > one, what is required is practical and usable documentation. As I have
> > grown to love Stata 8's graphics, I have generated unbridled animosity 
> to
> > the graphics help system and manual, having spent (wasted) hours trying 
> to
> > find things to make the graph I needed.
>
> I agree strongly with Fred concerning graph's documentation.  More than 
> once
> I've run out of fingers trying to hold all the pages needed to follow a
> trail through graph's linked documentation down to the element I was 
> looking
> for... and (sadly) sometimes I've forgotten why I wanted that element when 
> I
> finally found it!
>
> > I think what is needed is a help system that displays all sorts of 
> graphs
> > so that one can go to it and say, "That's the graph I want."
>
> My approach has been to keep a Word file holding both an image of a
> complicated graph that I've created and the commands I used to create it.
> Whether I need a completely new graph type or just a variation on an old
> one, I often first peruse this file for ideas before attempting to fight my
> way through the documentation.
>
> Tom Steichen
>
>
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