[Lazarus] [fpc-devel] New CHM documentation snapshot

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Sun Oct 11 20:06:29 CEST 2009


On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 06:39:17PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> >  > limited to class library help?
> >
> > All.  Fpdoc also.
> 
> I saw,thanks.  Now how do you enable CHM help in the Lazarus IDE? I
> want to use the RTL, FCL, LCL and Lang Ref CHM help so that when I
> press F1 over a method, or language keyword, my preferred CHM help
> viewer is loaded with the correct help displayed.
> 
> BTW:
> The 'prog' and 'ref' CHM help doesn't look so nice formatting wise,
> plus many hyperlinks are "fake" and go nowhere when clicked. But I
> guess this is not the CHM help's fault, but rather the same old
> problem of a shitty LaTeX to HTML converter - similar formatting
> issues as in the online help.

Afaik the hyperlinks are generally ok. However that is in the textmode IDE
that cuts all label information (since the helpsystem abstraction doesn't
deal with labels)
 
> Good news for you at least, is that you have some converted to HTML
> and then CHM. I have to write my own converter from LaTeX to IPF (and
> then compile to INF). :-(  Why has nobody here written a decent LaTeX
> to HTML converter?

Because LaTeX is more than simple markup. Afaik LaTeX is Turing complete,
and thus more a programming language.





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