On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> 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) ... And is probably quite out of date. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
