Making Max more beginner-friendly

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Totally agree that a "what you need to know" document is needed for people migrating from previous versions of Blitz.

I suspect the reason for this omission is down to BRL expecting most of the initial buyers would be newusers on Mac, not migrating PC users. Hence it was likely deemed not particularly important for the Mac release. As it turns out, many existing users have bought max, at least in part due to the (possibly too early?) release of the BETA versions. They definitely need to create this document for the proper release of max on PC, and may well have every intention of doing so. BlitzSupport's thread is evidence that they were aware of this very issue from the off, that thread just needs to become part of the documentation.

I would also appreciate a better means of working out what functions are in which modulea, although I'm not sure I can think of a really good answer to that problem. An overview diagram as suggested would be an excellent start. Full text search would also help immensely.