On Tue, 9 May 2006, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Has anybody put some thought into creating a cross platform help file
format that Lazarus could use in the IDE and in applications created
with Lazarus?
Just a quick list of ideas. Please add your own ideas or comments. Once we
have a good spec, maybe we can move all the ideas to the wiki
until implemented.
* I single help file, instead of loads of files like html would be
preferred. eg: .chm or .hlp files compared to .html file. Maybe
something like what OpenOffice.org did with their file format would
work. A single zipped file with xml and images inside.
* Maybe use a better compression algorythm like 7zip which is
excellent on text compared to normal zip for a single file compresion.
* In must support Index and keyword search.
* Image maps will be nice as well, using the png file format.
* We would need a help file compiler, that packs everything and
generates updated indexes and keywords.
* A help editor would be needed, except if we can piggy-back on LazDoc
and use that instead. If using LazDoc, it would need to be improved.
* Bookmark feature would be great.
I'm not very much in favour of creating "yet another format".
Standards exist, we should try to use them as much as possible.
Michael.
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