[Lazarus] Lazarus IDE help and Application help formats

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Mattias Gärtner schrieb:

> I think this discussion is somewhat fuzzy.
> There are several help sources, each with their own problems. Here are 
> the most prominent:
> 
> 1. the FPC help as latex files
> 2. the FCL help as fpdoc files
> 3. the lazarus packages help as fpdoc files (e.g. LCL)
> 4. the lazarus and fpc wiki pages

And that's the problem :-(

A help system should allow to access *all* these sources, adding a 
usable organization.

Blog-like help topics are highly undesireable, where the user has to 
figure out essential information from a bunch of "X has said this, Y has 
said that...", or topics with a hughe list of related documents.

IMO we need kind of CSS for structuring and representing the essential 
information, about data types (classes...) and their members. Automated 
import of preformatted (annotated) text, and means for presenting the 
information in one or more ways, with HTML as the first choice. 
Backgrounders, overviews, examples and more can be added as links to 
external documentation, but to only one primary source for every 
category (except for examples).

DoDi