More interesting developments, the version of the manual that Trade Secret is referencing is the revision one. It was a little unclear what version was being used. This has now been resolved.
Big thanks to PeterJ for the assist.
You might be thinking 'well so what?' it clears up a question of attribution. Plus I can now be sure of what was being referenced. The plan on the new version is to have footnotes with the relevant information or for larger portions it will be featured as an appendix. This should reduce the amount of primary documents needed to use trade secret.
The next step is to find as many articles related to the techniques talked about in trade secret.
Luckily archive.org seems pretty good for this kind of data mining. Thank you to djnzx48 for the heads up on this.
Trying to create an attribution timeline to trace the spread of the technique would be interesting. Plus having this information available in a single document would be useful. It's a lot easier to look up an appendix than dig through multiple archives to find the relevant article.
Not being the sharpest pencil in the tin I appreciate screen shots to show whats going on, that is a major deficiency in trade secret some might say potato toxic
. In the new edition there are extensive screenshots. (that's what I have been up to these past couple of days lol..)
Another thing that is badly needed is an index, this might take a little more time. But I think it would be worth it.
One thing that was removed was the blatant padding of having many pages of notes between each topic. It frustrated me because I felt it broke the flow of the document but what do you fellows think? Generally I would never write in books I owned. But perhaps I am weird..