2009/10/4 Marco van de Voort <[email protected]>: >> reader library, or do you use a publicly available library like >> libchm.so? > > own reader and writer.
Good. >> As far as I know there is just one INF (IPF) tag format. > > Well, it is similar in the sense that the average developer has to learn it, > contrary to basic HTML. And looking at some of the websites out there, it seems developers and web designers still need to learn HTML. There is a lot of crap out there! As a test, I asked my wife (a professional photographer, not web designer) to look at an IPF file and see if she can figure out the tags without even looking at the IPF Tag documentation. Within five minutes to guessed most of the tags functions correctly. So no, IPF tags are not that hard to read / learn. And if you are an HTML developers (HTML + CSS have a lot more tags than IPF), you will understand IPF tags without a hitch! Also creating a preprocessor or WYSIWYG app is also very simple to do. Most content management systems and many wiki sites even have WYSIWYG editors for the more complex HTML, so the same would be quite simple for IPF. > No. _I'm_ not interested in INF. The only one I'm considering doing myself > is TPH, because of the turbo vision help. So that is YOUR opinion only, and forcing CHM on everybody that uses the Text IDE. That's not very nice. I don't use the Text IDE much, so to me it would not matter. But when it was mentioned a while back that all help formats are considering being dropped and only CHM used, instantly there were replies showing concern. One such reply referred to the hordes of API documentation for OS/2 which are all in INF format. Another mentioned the Turbo Vision help. So judging from those replies, you are not the only one using the Text IDE - there are others. To them, having the ability to view whatever format help they help seems to be important. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
