Talk:Examples of Generator Usage

Ed 10Dec12: Now that these are on a separate page (and in my opinion, even if not) I do not think that these two need to be set off an individual "note" boxes. I also think that there should be pictures to go along with these descriptions in the examples. This would flash the page out and make it more worthy of the page of its own.
 * Peter 10Dec12: I have removed the note divs
 * Gale 13Dec12: We usually have note divs for "examples" on the page for the individual GUI item, but it's probably reasonable not to do so here.
 * Gale 13Dec12: Should be a ToDo-2 added to include images, or I think this should go back into the main page. An image for each example would allow the commented out text in the div above to be reinstated.
 * Peter 13Dec12: I have no real objection to us providing images for these examples, but it seems to me that we would then be straying into the territory of "Tutorials". Do we really want to create a tutorial for the usage of the generators?  And note that we don't do similar for either the Analyzers or the Effects - I'm not sure this is a road we want to go down.  Thoughts?
 * Gale:14Dec12: I don't think images for those examples is at all mandatory per se. The problem has been created by adding the div to this page about the selection format being different according to whether there is a selection or not. Do we need that here? We'll have to reinstate something like it in Generate Menu as per Steve's comments, unless we move the div back to Generate Menu. If you want my opinion, splitting this page off is un-necessary. Apart from the "Examples", there is little unique here that is not already agreed as essential for Generate Menu. I think there is a case for splitting off the Examples to their own page, but as Ed says you then need images to flesh it out.
 * Peter 14Dec12: Ok I have moved the usage section back to the main page (in reformatted form for consistency and readability). The question that remains is: do we want this separate page and have images added to it - or do we just move the material back to Generate Menu at the foot of that page, without images, but re-enclosed in the blue note boxes?
 * Peter 17Dec12: I have stared at this page a lot over the weekend and thought long and hard about it. I have today reformatted it considerably, made several tweaks for readability an updated the button, keyboard and command templates in line with Connie's wishes.  I now don't think that this page needs images, the command steps are quite clearly stated and I don't want to turn this into a full-blown tutorial.  Nor do I think that this page should be moved back to the Generate Menu page. It stands on its own quite well here imo, it prevents Generate Menu from becoming TLDR and none of the other Effects Analyzers or Generators have examples on their documentation pages.
 * Gale: 22Dec12: Now we've got to this point I guess it makes sense to keep the built-in Generators together in Generate Menu, or are you still keen to put each of them on their own page? Would it not shorten the page too much? I'm inclined to leave Generate Menu as is, bar minor tweaks.
 * Peter 22Dec12: I'm now minded to keep the built-in Generators together in Generate Menu. Unlike the analyzers and the effect the built-in generators have a fairly common set of parameters so I can see that it makes sense to group them together and only list the perameter details once. And thanks for your help on developing this page Gale, much appreciated.