[Lazarus] Lazarus has unique font sizes

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:34:21 +0200
Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hestermann at gmx.de> wrote:

> >> Should we say: "Learn Delphi first, then come back here?" :)
> > That's the current state. Without the Delphi documentation and OH
> > every newcomer to Lazarus is definitely lost :-(
> 
> That would be a guideline if it worked. But the problem is, that you 
> cannot rely on the Delphi documentation when using Lazarus because
> there are lots of details where Lazarus differs from Delphi. So the
> conclusion is, that no (usable) documentation exists for Lazarus. You
> have to try and  ask the forum if in doubt. That's not a satisfiable
> situation but as long as noone hast the time (and knowledge) to
> update the Lazarus help it seems unavoidable.

First of all:
Take a look in the wiki log and you will see that every day things are
updated or added.

About the forum vs wiki:
There are many experts in the various forums writing good advices and
sometimes lengthy explanations. I wish they would instead add the hints to the wiki and just post a link in the forum.

It is true, that the quality of the Delphi help is really good - and
in too many areas better than the lazarus help.
But "no usable documentation" is a bad exaggeration. There are for
example more than 1000 wiki pages and the lcl fpdoc contains more than
30.000 notes.

Mattias