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PSoco.1
Associate II
April 19, 2022
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Is there some ordering of the chapters of the user manuals? competitors use alphabetical order which is great, ST seems to use TRNG ordering, showing off its amazing technology. I was wondering though, can ST help readers instead? they are not impres

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LCE
Principal II
April 19, 2022

Although it is a good one (TRNG :face_with_tears_of_joy: ), and sometimes the manuals are kinda meh... the ordering of chapters is no problem for me.

I use the pdf's bookmarks pane on the left in Acrobat for navigation.

And alphabetically? Hmm, would be strange if the manual started with the ADC and not the system basics. ;)

But okay, after these the peripherals could be ordered alphabetically

Tesla DeLorean
Guru
April 19, 2022

Whilst I think ST could seriously invest in technical writers, UI experts and QA staff, the only thing in the manuals I expect in alphabetic order is the INDEX.

The ordering of system and peripheral chapters really only needs to be ordered by importance and centrality to the core. They're trying to describe a tree, not create a dictionary or thesaurus...

And for the most part nobody reads this stuff, or in order, most are lost if there's not a video to re-explain things, and others of us just skim the stuff that's irrelevant to our current use case or problem, with an understanding of where to return to if we need to find or confirm something specific.

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PSoco.1
PSoco.1Author
Associate II
April 20, 2022

"And for the most part nobody reads this stuff, or in order"

ordering is to find the chapter faster, if there are many chapters it helps. search tool may be slower when you have a very large document

S.Ma
Principal
April 20, 2022

Well, beyond the vertical scrolling or chapter tree PDF, maybe a more 2D or 3D way to navigate the data would be refreshing.