[Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Sat Oct 22 23:36:47 CEST 2016


On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 12:13:32 +0100
Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

>[...]
> Take the Free Pascal CHM help as an example - it is horrific looking.
> The fpdoc's HTML output writer was clearly designed for online HTML
> usage with popup browser windows and decent CSS support etc. The CHM
> conversion of that gives broken links, unsupported features and bad
> formatting.

Is this a problem of the CHM producer or the CHM viewer?

> It just gives the documentation a bad wrap. fpdoc should
> have a dedicated CHM output writer. The same can be said for an ePub
> HTML output writer (if that ever materializes).

Mattias


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