[lazarus] Help files

[Florian Klaempfl]

At 17:05 19.12.01 +0000, you wrote:
>Le Tuesday 18 December 2001 23:04, Michal Bukovjan a écrit :
>
> > I would like to advise you not to try to create a new help formats,
> > especially in the situation when a number of those currently exist,
> > HTML is, or may be, in fact quite simple (after all, it was created to
> > do exactly what you say above!), and renderers do exist for this format,
> > which is defined by the W3 consortium. There have been a lot of efforts
> > to handle all aspects of modern systems! Just think aboout:
> >
> > - human readable format of sources
> > - convertibility to other formats
> > - industry standard
> > - standardized hypertext markup notation
> > - multiple languages and charset encodings
> > - existing indexing and search engines
> > - XML compatible (XHTML DTDs)
> > - separation of content and format via CSS (great thing!)
> > - multiplatformness
> > - plethora of tools for authoring, editing, serving, cleaning,
> > formatting, ...
>
>But one thing is bad : html help need a lot of files (one for each help
>page), it's a waste of memory on hard drives...

But this matters only for old file systems like FAT32, no? In the worth
case, the htmls could be zipped.