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Nactation Question

Posted By: Nack Ballard
Date: Thursday, 19 August 2010, at 7:44 p.m.

In Response To: Nactation Question (Jason Lee)

I've always thought that tutorial is quite good, but needs some more examples. Any plans for an update?

Thanks, Jason, and yes an update is in the works (partially completed, though disorganized at the moment).

It's hard to find a block of time that I need to finish the update, though it encourages me when I see people using Nactation, especially when I get the sense that they have read through the current version of the tutorial.

For example, when I get a question like, "What does E mean?," or "What's the difference between 43S and 43Z," or "For the roll of 21, U is 24/23 24/22, right?" (the tutorial states and illustrates that it's not) or "Please -- how do you nactate this?" and the answer is in the tutorial, it shows an interest in Nactation and I'm more than happy to explain or refer -- no problem -- but it doesn't inspire me in the least to write an update because it seems clear the person asking has not read the basic material that is already there.

(Or perhaps the inquisitor can't be bothered to consult the tutorial because he might accidentally learn how to use other letters. I'm that way sometimes with instruction manuals; I'd rather make a phone call because I only want to know the answer to an isolated question -- it would be pointless or even counterproductive for them to expand their manual for people like me. That said, I have layered the Nactation tutorial so that the essential material is covered in the first few pages: people interested only in the basics don't have to hunt and peck.)

By contrast, when someone says, "In Diagram #16c of the tutorial, why can't E mean 24/23 6/3* -- isn't that ambiguous?," or, "I read the tutorial and couldn't find @," that inspires me -- I know that the work I put in to completing the update will be useful and it consequentially gets nudged higher in my (ball-juggling) set of priorities.

Cheers,

Nack

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