My CHM notes (mostly the urls) are at http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/chm.txt IIRC somewhere on the helpware pages listed there, there was some URL to helpsystem updates.
If you need a certain transformation on an existing chm file, (e.g. relink it, ch…
Thanks Robert, for the keen observation! There actually will be more (I assume) typos - this one (and probably others) appear in the original text from vpascal.com. I tried to proofread as I went (converting/formatting), but obviously I missed some.…
To some degree, you are correct (I think), but have a look at the documentation I have compiled. This is only the authorized documentation put into a more "readable" form, with some added from VP's the online help. The Language Reference (5.16 and 6…
Andreas,
I am not familiar with Xubuntu (Ubuntu Linux?), but I can tell you a little about compiling under Windows. The SYSTEM unit is actually comprised of several files, of which SYSTEM.PAS is only one; there are some assembly language files whic…
About Crosslinking:
Well, I have some support for that in the tooling, and additionally FPC has DOM libraries that allow to load the html in a DOM model and do fixups. This is currently already done for the non-unit docs.
About CHM generation:
Fo…
Marco,
The lack of crosslinks was deliberate - extracting HTML and other files from the CHM yields a zip file which contains individual control files (HHP and HHC) for separate compilation. In other words, you could compile the Users Guide separate…
I've now studied it a bit more, and I think it looks really nice. Only comment I could have is that because now everything is in one band, the links could be fixed so that references between different manuals work. (instead of being just a mention o…
Hello to all! Allen (new member) here,
I am a long time (OMG, when did I become so old!) Pascal (DOS) programmer - I "cut my teeth" on Turbo Pascal v3, and migrated to v5.5 and finally to Borland Pascal. I am extremely intrigued by Virtual Pascal -…