[Lazarus] No help found for...

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Thu Jun 10 12:36:38 CEST 2010


On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:34:27AM +0200, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > That help unfortunately sits in a very crappy format and in the wiki only. Maybe one day we will have an export wiki
> > to XXX format, where XXX is something more usable, like the XML format
> > of fpdoc. Then just like fpdoc, we can write conversion units form XXX
> > to CHM, INF, HTML, PDF, Man pages etc. which will allow end-users to
> > have off-line help for everything.
> 
> I guess 99% of the wiki text uses only 9 attributes (bold, italic,
> delphi, command, title 1-4, link, image, bullet and ordered list).

(which means no crossreferencing to outside the wiki? What about the keys?)

> That should be easy to parse. Of course you have to parse the source, not
> the html output.  Tables and translations could be tricky.

How to obtain it? The helper app that Vincent showed me both didn't work,
and V. said it was due to antispam measures installed on the wiki.

Is it possible from the inside (scenergy/idefix?)




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