[Bf-docboard] Intro, and apology

[Francesco Siddi]

Welcome Noel,
thanks for your message! Any effort to improve and update the
documentation is highly appreciated.

Francesco

On 16 August 2013 23:56, Noel Stoutenburg <brasshat at core.com> wrote:
> Friends,
>
> I am Noel Stoutenburg, a user who is somewhere between a 1 year user of
> Blender 6 times over, and a 6-year Blender user. I am mainly interested
> in mesh modeling, and that is where I've devoted most of my personal
> efforts, principally in making user content for the Railroad simulator
> software, by th the Australian firm, N3V, under the brand of "Trainz".
>
> Now the apology: having a certain, very modest capability of editing
> different WIKI's, I took irt upon myself, without necessarily following
> the recommended practices to make some small enhancements to the Blender
> documentation. When I identified significant holes in parts of  two
> pages,
> <http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/3D_interaction/Navigating/3D_View_Options>,
> and
> <http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Modeling/Meshes/Editing/Edges>,
> I took it upon myself to make an effort to close these holes.
>
> In the case of the 3D_View_Options page cited, I made two additions. The
> first was to clarify that the "size" parameter of a background image is
> a scalar value, and to specify in the documentation how it is applied to
> the dimensions of an image. The second was to add a (partial) list of
> supported file formats in which a background image should be found. In
> the latter case, i don't know that this list is exhaustive, but I tested
> the formats I listed.
>
> In the case of the "Meshes/Editing/Edges" page, I noticed a deficiency
> that there was no documentation as to how one would unmark an edge which
> had been formerly marked as a crease for the purposes of the subdivision
> surface modifier, and when I learned the information, I provided that
> for the benefit of the greater community.
>
> I'll try to adhere more closely to the Standard procedures and customs
> in the future.
>
> ns
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