[lazarus] docs/tutorials

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Keith Bowes wrote:

> > Everyone of the items you have indicated is covered in the current
> > documentation
>
> ... with the exceptions of OOP and Sockets.  The coverage on those items are
> basically just references for those with previous working knowledge of those
> concepts.
>
> Maybe small complementary articles explaining the rudiments of those
> concepts would be better than a full-fledged tutorial that would take longer
> to write.
>
> > I am also looking at the possiblity of moving the current documentation
> > method from PasDoc to fpDoc. PasDoc as a tool seems to have stopped
> > development. fpDoc is a tool written primarily for FreePascal in the
> > first place.
>
> Note that I'm neither for nor against either tool, but I think PasDoc has
> the advantages of being well-documented, portable and available in binary
> form.  By contrast, I found little information on fpDoc and I couldn't
> compile it on Windows.

fpDoc has not been 'released' publically, because the TeX support is
missing. But I am working on the TeX support, and then we'll make an
'official' release - WITH documentation.

Michael Hess is looking at writing an editor for it, and is making
progress.

Michael.