Graeme Geldenhuys <[email protected]> writes: > You author your help using plain text IPF file.
Is there any Editor support for the markup? Now I see that it’s the old OS2’s format and I was die-hard OS2 user. :-) > Then compile that with a utility called WIPFC (IPF Compiler) to > generate a very compact binary INF file. The WIPFC compiler and > DocView are available from the fpGUI project. Nice. > Some technical info: > INF is very compact and fast because the INF file itself contains a > dictionary of words, built from the help text, and each help topic > simply references the words from the dictionary. This also enables > full-text search support as standard. That’s cool. > I use a text editor called EditPad Pro (my favourite text editor), which > I improved the syntax highlighting and file navigation to make IPF file > authoring even easier. But any text editor will do. No special tools or > applications are required. Do you know about possible vim/Emacs support? > When you are ready, you are welcome to email me in private to ask more > questions. I’ve sent a post to FPC list asking about GUI options form FPC, but it did not went through (yet). :-( Sincerely, Gour -- The humble sages, by virtue of true knowledge, see with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmana, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
