[Lazarus] Extending FCL documentation

Hans-Peter Diettrich DrDiettrich1 at aol.com
Thu Feb 9 12:40:33 CET 2012


Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> On 9 February 2012 09:53, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>>> So no, Help and Documentation could very well be the same think. Just
>>> use the right format for the job.
>> You confuse the structure (and content) of documentation with the file type.
> 
> Not at all.

Sorry, you obviously do :-(

>> When you write a book, you can store it in Word, HTML, PDF or whatever
>> format you like. But such a book will hardly be usable for context sensitive
>> help. Likewise you can merge all help topics into one document, but I'd not
>> call the result a "book".
> 
> And this is where you are wrong. INF can serve both purposes without
> problems (hence the reason I chose it for fpGUI). I reviewed a lot of
> help file / ebook-type formats before I settled on INF.

There exist good and bad books. It's primarily a matter of content, how 
useful a book is - you cannot really improve the quality of a digital 
book by visual effects.

DoDi





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