On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Marco van de Voort wrote:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 05:55:13PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Download size:
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DocView plus it's help file:
Linux 32-bit = 533KB
Linux 64-bit = 446KB
Windows 32-bit = 367KB
Class Documentation:
fpGUI [fpgui-20100826.zip] = 0.1MB
RTL + FCL [rtl_fcl-20100826.zip] = 1.3MB
The rtl.inf downloaded from your site is 2MB, the fcl one is 800kb.
rtl.chm 2.5MB the FCL one is 1.3MB. Aside from that, the .INF format
simply holds less information, see below:
LCL [lcl-20100826.zip] = 1.4MB
documentation. LCL class documentation in INF format is a mere 3.8MB in
size - compare that to the same documentation in HTML format (65MB) or CHM
format (12.1MB).
This is a bit misleading, since it is not just a matter of format, but
mostly reduced content. The IPF documentation is generated differently, and
the raw content is simply much less.
As an example I created a screenshot comparison of the TStringlist topic,
with the IPF help inlayed to the HTML/CHM topic:
http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/strlst.png
Note that the html output screenshot was clipped, but the see-also section
follows. (and is better formattted too, with descriptions for the links)
Note that Classes and other complex type are a special case, but it does
account for the LCL size being so small, since that mostly is classes.
But e.g. the fact that in the html output, see also has an description
and has links on top, goes for every lemma.
You cannot compare IPF format to HTML. You should compare it to RTF or PDF
or something similar.
The HTML format is the most verbose, but this is because it intended as an
on-line viewing system. The RTF/PDF whatnot are meant for printing. If
graeme based IPF on the linear writer, then it will be meant for printing
as well.
Michael.
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