Just so you all at Garmin know: I just downloaded BaseCamp, and the search function in the help menu does not seem to work. Any term (route, track, waypoint, measure, ect.) that I search for comes back as "No Topics Found".
Andy
I've had mine installed for a long time and I get the same behaviour.
Specifically, I typed "create routes" without the quotes into the search tab and got no items found.
At that time the help window was showing the Garmin Welcome screen and one of the items in the list of things you can do with BaseCamp was:
"- Create, view, and edit waypoints, routes, and tracks."
By the way, Garmin, in that sentence the commas after "view" and "routes" shouldn't be there. Bad grammar as well as bad search implementation. Shame...
@Andy, the positive is that typing the same terms into the Index tab does produce results.
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"- Create, view, and edit waypoints, routes, and tracks."
By the way, Garmin, in that sentence the commas after "view" and "routes" shouldn't be there. Bad grammar as well as bad search implementation. Shame...
WHAT, ARE YOU NUTS!!! :eek: Of course they should be there. They are separate and distinct actions in a list of three or more items. There could be a case made perhaps for not using a comma between view and and since that became common usage in the late 20th Century. You can rest assured that those of us using BaseCamp are not common. ;) For those of us who grew up with Webster's 2nd you are spouting heresy! :D
Sorry. I learned that the commas in a list replace the word "and" so using a comma and "and" together is redundant since they serve the same purpose.
I was born just before the middle of the 20th century so I guess I grew up with that most common usage you speak of. Are you so much older? ;)
I'm Canadian and we tend to follow British usage. The British have always tended to avoid the serial (or series) comma (the one that you might place before "and" between the last two items in the series).
...I was born just before the middle of the 20th century so I guess I grew up with that most common usage you speak of. Are you so much older? ;)
I'm Canadian and we tend to follow British usage. The British have always tended to avoid the serial (or series) comma (the one that you might place before "and" between the last two items in the series).
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Ah, so you are one of the little kids, eh? :D [I think I am much older having been born in 1942.]
We had a commapocalypse down here starting in the 1960s and they almost all got wiped out. They are still struggling to come back and I like to help when I can :)
FWIW, I scored perfect verbal SAT back in 1984, but granted I'm from Texas. :D Also, I have a tendancy to be 'creative' to make up for what I believe are some shortcomings in our language (e.g. 'you' as plural is confusing, so "Y'all" is more clear). That said:
Create, view, and edit waypoints, routes, and tracks.
is incorrect. the "comma and" is redundant. This would be more correct: Create, view and edit waypoints, routes and tracks. And so (technically) is this: Create, view, edit waypoints, routes, tracks. But that is less "readable". If I were writing it from scratch, and wanted to be grammatically correct, and explicit for less confusion, I would have said: Create, view and edit: waypoints, routes and tracks. This removes the redundant comma-and, but it also designates two lists which actually creates a two dimensional matrix (any of the tree actions can be performed on any of the three objects.... or combinations: e.g. view and edit both routes and tracks)
Language is EXTREMELY important. Without it, we'd still be drawing maps in sand with sicks.
FWIW, I scored perfect verbal SAT back in 1984, but granted I'm from Texas. :D Also, I have a tendancy to be 'creative' to make up for what I believe are some shortcomings in our language (e.g. 'you' as plural is confusing, so "Y'all" is more clear). That said:
Create, view, and edit waypoints, routes, and tracks.
Up here in the Great White North it's high school grades that determine your eligibility for university entrance. Why the extra testing in the US? High school grades not to be trusted? Government make-work project? :D
"Verbal" IS the written part.... The test is two parts: Math and Verbal. I did poorly in math, so the verbal "saved my bacon".
Ken, had I to stand on my HS Grades, I wouldnt have made the cut. I was a slacker. Once I actually had to PAY for school (university), and escaped the boring silliness of HS, I got down to business (unlike most of the "partiers" in college).
