On 12 November 2011 18:01, Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@....> wrote: > I'm not happy at all with the wiki, I cannot find anything there, unless > somebody gives me a direct link.
+1000 I don't even bother with the wiki any more. It's a mixed mess of random words. > Do you have an idea how this could be improved? Yes, use a true documentation format. IPF (text source which compiles into highly compressed binary INF help files). I am probably bias, but IPF is an excellent format, and was designed for the job. Then using a cross-platform documentation viewer like DocView makes all your help searchable (even multiple INF files together), shows a TOC, will auto-generate an Index, bookmarks, annotation etc... To show how well INF files work, I have a copy of the Sybil Library (Sybil was a Delphi clone like Lazarus - but created by a company for the OS/2 platform). I can supply a copy to anybody that is interested. The library is a collection of INF documents (considering them like digital books) explaining the Object Pascal language for newbies, a book on OOP introduction, the Sybil RTL and SCL (the equivalent of VCL or LCL), the OS/2 API help, and the Sybil IDE help, and documentation on various Sybil tools. It's quite brilliant, very extensive and looks good. All points I consider very important for useful documentation. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://fpgui.sourceforge.net -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
