On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Adrian Maier wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2007 1:04 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Adrian Maier wrote: > > > > > Also , it would be nice to be able to copy-paste procedure names and > > > source code examples > > > from the docs . > > > > This can be done with PDF as well. > > What pdf viewer are you using? I can't do it on Linux with xpdf or > kghostview. I use acroread. > > > > The truly painful experience with the fpc docs is finding a > > > class/procedure that is > > > performing a certain function and that you haven't used before and > > > that you are not > > > even sure it exists . The functionality is fragmented into units and > > > the navigation > > > links requires an advanced understanding about one can expect to find in > > > each > > > unit : before reaching the reference page of a procedure you need to > > > know its exact > > > name or at least the unit is belongs to . > > > > In the next release, I hope to have a search engine included in the docs. > > I found one, written in FPC, so that is perfect ! (ioda or something) > > Great news ! > > Any chances to have better navigation in the online HTML docs ? I > mean : a better presentation of what the units contain , without > being forced to click N times until getting to the list of > "Procedures" or "Classes" . As i was explaining : finding items is > painful unless you already know the unit . I'm not planning to change the structure of the pages. At most an index page per unit will be added. But I expect the search engine to solve this kind of issue. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
