[Lazarus] Extending FCL documentation

Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.lists at gmail.com
Thu Feb 9 12:55:48 CET 2012


On 9 February 2012 11:31, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> findable by e.g. links, keywords or topic lists. There exists no automatism
> that could do that automatically. Tags are not really helpful, because every
> contributor can have a different opinion about useful keywords,

You raise a good point - and another reason for one of DocView's many
features. I have found too often INF files where the Index specified
by the help author was not very good. They seem to do the Index as a
"last resort - time permitting". This is why DocView can auto-generate
a Index, or it can use the built-in Index of the INF file, or it can
merge both. This behaviour is all configurable by the end-user in the
DocView Options dialog.

This gives the end-user the best chance to find something helpful from
the Index page.


> and a
> full-text search is typically too unspecific and contains too much unrelated
> "noise".

DocView has a search result rating system built-in, to try and
eliminate such "noise". And if the full-text search doesn't work, you
can always switch to the Index tab.


-- 
Regards,
  - Graeme -


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