[Lazarus] UPDATED: Re: documentation snapshot

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2013-04-22 10:31, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> 
> But with what fpdoc ? Did you generate 2.6.2 docs with trunk fpdoc ?


I generated FPC 2.6.2 RTL and FCL docs about a week ago, using the fpdoc
from trunk. It worked fine here. Just did the usual:

  make rtl.chk fcl.chk HTMLFMT=ipf FPCSRCDIR=/path/to/fpc

Yes the HTMLFMT option is a bit weird, but my Makefiles skills are
limited, and it was easier to tweak (years ago) the build process of
HTML output.

I would much prefer fpdoc project files, even for RTL and FCL. They work
really well for fpGUI docs.


>> This is normal. Printed and Online docs should not look the same.
>> I may need to do some efforts to improve PDF output, though.
> 
> It's normal for Latex. It's one of the things I didn't like about IPF output
> the last time I checked though.

The IPF output has slightly more linking and different look to the Latex
output - even though the IPF output is based on the Linear writer. I
don't want the look of CHM though (standard HTML converted to CHM
doesn't work) - I find that a bit over crowded, and lots of the links
have no meaning in CHM (though it suits HTML with popup windows). The
Latex output is very neat, and I wanted to keep that style with IPF
(which I consider a type of eBook).

Curious, when last did you look at DocView and say rtl.inf? I just
uploaded new binaries of both onto SourceForge.


Regards,
  - Graeme -

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