[Lazarus] Lazarus IDE help and Application help formats

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Mon Aug 24 18:51:21 CEST 2009


In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:

(Sorry was in Hasselt for a few days)

> >>> keyword 'procedure'?
> >>
> >> Currently it can't, since the keywords are not part of the HTML and therefor
> >> not part of the CHM.
> >
> > keywords are difficult, but procedures work fine. Simply merge the indexes
> > and do a lookup.
> >
> > Note that I also converted the Windows CHM header, it will be in the next
> > version.
> 
> Note that the keywords are in the html docs in the file ref/ref.pwd
> 
> type=refch3.html#keyword:type
> integer=refsu5.html#keyword:integer
> array=refsu14.html#keyword:array
> record=refsu15.html#keyword:record
> 
> and that the anchors exist in the mentioned files, so the CHM generation
> could, in theory, make use of this.

Could be. Due to tex4ht, you probably can't rely on the filename though, so
you would have to index the anchors in all files, and then fixup the
references.

I'll see if I can spend some time on this the coming days.





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