I'm afraid that manuals are a matter of taste. Always either too superficial or too thorough, and never containing the answer to your specific question.
Let me digress to explain the dilemma in a quite different context, and you may understand.
Some 25 years ago, I was a volunteer with some society, a federation of sport clubs. I was in charge of the computer system: two MS-DOS computers (I resigned when they installed Windows 95), connected by some early form of cabled network.
The more powerful computer had one main user (paid worker), the lesser one had many users from the clubs (frequently succeeding each other).
This lesser computer offered some basic functions, like word processing (WordPerfect 5.1) and viewing (not generating) the competition schema, and (as I recall it) entering the results of matches.
The paid worker came up with some menu software (call it a launcher). I installed it on the lesser computer. I re-installed WP as a network-aware app, so that users could identify their documents. I had the menu software act as some form of log-in, such that users automatically had their configuration of WP, and that only authorized people could enter match results.
The paid worker suggested that I create some explanation of what could be done on that computer, and how. I seem to remember that I could add descriptions to the Menu items, and that I could have a Help document displayed as a Menu option.
However, I found out that people didn't use my documentation, either because it was too concise, or because reading it would take too long, too many seconds. (Besides, people logged in from one section would be willing to leave their seat to people from another section without logging out and in (no passwords involved!), thus bypassing whatever rules or tweaks I had implemented.)
Yes, how about me and my big mouth? I tend to collect manuals, preferably the electronic ones. If offered, the full User Guides rather than the Quick Start Guides. I'm in the habit of uploading them. To the cloud (currently Microsoft OneDrive) and from there to a reader (currently Google Play Books). I may even buy the most comprehensive third-party books on hardware or software. But reading them... "cover to cover" or looking for that single matter I'm encountering? Hardly ever. I do start out, though.
Indexing, you say. I have a website of stories (in Dutch), highly indexed. I know the time it takes. I know why I can't locate matters despite the indexing.
Yes, it can be done, probably automatically. (WordPerfect could, probably as early as version 4.0, in the 80s. Don't know about Apple stuff.)
So, yes, too much trouble that would not be worth the funding, I'm afraid.
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Chris
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On 29 Apr 2019, 23:36 +0200, nphudd@cantab.net [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com>, wrote:
<<Why, oh why, can't Apple provide a full detailed manual with the telephone?>>Same as all suppliers of modern equipment (like the car manufacturers) - they cannot be bothered to fund a properly edited and FULLY indexed manual, and are convinced that the inadequate online ones are better, which they are not by many miles. The manuals provided these days are usually very helpful, but should always be backed up with a comprehensive, properly edited, hard-copy (pdf) manual with full contents list in order and a proper, absolutely complete, index. It should have been proof-read by a native speaker of the language. Too much trouble for them
---In apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com, <mcb@...> wrote :
Very many thanks for your prompt, helpful and courteous response.
It was the Lock Clicks switch in settings - which I didn't know existed
Why, oh why, can't Apple provide a full detailed manual with the telephone?
With best wishes and thanks again.
MC Black
On 29/04/2019 14:02, chrislaarman@... [apple-iphone] wrote:Not intended to offend:Do you still hear similar sounds in similar cases?Just think of software settings like Volume all down, Do Not Disturb, or that hardware switch above the Volume keys in the wrong position. (I hate that switch.)
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Chris
replying to:On 29 Apr 2019, 13:13 +0200, MC Black mcb@... [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com>, wrote:
Ladies & Gentlemen
I have been using John Coddington's RPN Calculator (cmpxRPN) for some time
Recently, the software stopped clicking audibly when I touched a key.
I have set the thing to click (under "info") but I can't hear it.
Is there a global setting somewhere on the iPhone (I'm running iOS 1.2 that I might have used accidentally?
I have tied a global reset with no effect.
I would write to Mr. Coddington but there's no indication of how to contact him
Any suggestions, please?
Very many thanks
MC Black
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