[fpc-pascal] Documentation strangeness

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 4 Apr 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> On 4 April 2010 12:11, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> That depends on the PDF reader. Searching is virtually instantaneous on
>>> Mac OS X with its default PDF reader (but it's indeed fairly slow with at
>>> least Acrobat Reader).
>
> I guess Mac has better PDF support than any other platform. Acrobat
> Reader on Linux is slow to start up, does not come standard with Linux
> distros, is a rather large download.
>
>
>> Okular also searches very fast.
>
> I have never heard of Okular, but a quick Google search reveals it's
> part of KDE apps. I use Evince (included with Ubuntu) or Acrobat
> Reader to view or print PDF's. Each have there own strengths, but no
> single one is a clear winner.
>
> I must admit, I haven't used FPC's PDF or HTML docs in some time. The
> INF versions are very near 100% complete, so they already fulfil my
> documentation needs and integrate well with Lazarus IDE and MSEide.

The disadvantage being that they are not updated when the documentation
is updated.

That said, weren't you going to send me a patch to implement INF support
in fpdoc ?

Michael.