In our previous episode, Michael Schnell said: > > Lazarus context sensitive help shows documentation of the fpdoc files and > > comments from pasdoc (similar to javadoc, DelphiCodeToDoc) and it browses > > through the class hierarchy to show ancestor help. The help content can be > > edited in the IDE context sensitive or via lazde and Kirk is doing a great > > job > > here. > In the German Lazarus forum there recently has been a discussion on > improving the (German) help. There had been a suggestion to use a Wiki > to update / enhance the help texts
Personally I despise wiki'ed manuals. They are horrible quality, over-hyperlinked beasts of ugly. I always get the feeling that those "everybody hacks away online" manuals are more obsessed with the process than with the result. To avoid the chaos of too many cooks spoiling the broth, but still have finely grained user input in the docs, FPC at one point tried an annotate system (people being able to annotate problems in the FPC docs on a per page basis in wiki style), however it was plagued with technical problems, and never caught on. I still like the principle though. It is still visible on the FPC docs page (the "with comments" option) _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
