On 9/7/06, Marc Santhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Am Mittwoch, den 06.09.2006, 09:43 +0200 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
>
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Marc Santhoff wrote:
>
> > Am Dienstag, den 05.09.2006, 15:38 +0200 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
> >> On 9/5/06, Alexandre Leclerc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> Thank you Graeme, I was thinking to use zLib in another project. So
> >>> your simpler unit will be usefull. As for OOo fromat, it is zip format
> >>> (just rename a file an unpack it to see for yourself.)
> >>
> >> I know they are a zip (read compressed) file, but how do you know what
> >> algorithm is used? gzip, winzip, zip (if there is such a thing)?
> >>
> >> I am very interrested in you work though... I still have an
> >> outstanding todo list item of creating a single (compressed) file help
> >> system for Lazarus projects. I was looking at the OOo file format for
> >> ideas. One zip file containing the help, index and content file. And a
> >> Help Viewer app to read the contents inside that file.
> >
> > Maybe this is of interest in sense of creating ans using a common
> > documentation format:
> >
> > http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/
>
> Since the last news is from 2002, I doubt this project is still relevant :(
Hm, I didn't notice. Sad, very sad, it is a nice approach of having
something like HLP and CHM in an open format. Probably it's not sexy
enough to work on this kind of project ...
If you are looking for a way to make help files, you can use html as
content of the help files and xml as the index.
Take a look at the project: http://developer.imendio.com/projects/devhelp
Marc
Ido
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