[Lazarus] Extending FCL documentation

Hans-Peter Diettrich DrDiettrich1 at aol.com
Tue Feb 7 18:48:06 CET 2012


Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> On 7 February 2012 08:36, Hans-Peter Diettrich  wrote:
>> documentation, I think that there exist reasons for maintaining additional
>> documentation directories, which are *not* under version control
> 
> 
> I think you are approaching the problem from the wrong angle.
> Additional documentation should be the job of the Help Viewer (LHelp,
> DocView etc), not the documentation generator.

This may be a solution, but is not supported by current viewers nor 
FPDoc Editor or hints :-(

> Otherwise, you are
> forcing everybody to generate their own documentation, just to get
> their own personal notes included in the help. And every time you want
> to add a new note, you have no generate the docs again! :-(

Usually I'm happy when I get immediate descriptions in the FPDoc Editor 
or hints. But searching the help or overviews etc. require viewers with 
additional information (indices...).

DoDi





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