On Tue, September 8, 2009 17:05, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Tomas Hajny said: >> >> (NewView) implemented in Object Pascal (I think it's Free Pascal >> >> Compiler compatible). >> > >> > Don't forget licensing issues. Also keep in mind that portable editors >> and >> > generators for HTML are plenty. What about .INF? Is there a Latex2inf? >> >> There is Texinfo2Ipf and HTML2IPF and also probably some others, surely >> all with their limitations. Nevertheless, I'm not sure if .INF is more >> interesting/better than CHM nowadays (except for the fact that I'm not >> aware of a CHM viewer for OS/2, which is an important downside for me >> personally, of course ;-) ). > > Then fix the textmode IDE for OS/2 :-)
Would it start working as a general CHM viewer then (including e.g. display of embedded pictures in text mode)? ;-) > Point is the CHM support is quite far atm, and I don't think it makes > sense > to add another format. I'm also seriously thinking to cull some of the > legacy formats out of the IDE when the transition is ready. . . Fine, let's discuss this (dropping of formats) on case by case basis. E.g. OS/2 API documentation is only available in .INF. Dropping .INF automatically means dropping support for these documents. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
