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daniel 399036f1c2 * State tracker work
* The whilen and repeatn are now completely unified into whilerepeatn. This
  allows the state tracker to change while nodes automatically into
  repeat nodes.
* Resulttypepass improvements to the notn. 'not not a' is optimized away and
  'not(a>b)' is optimized into 'a<=b'.
* Resulttypepass improvements to the whilerepeatn. 'while not a' is optimized
  by removing the notn and later switchting the true and falselabels. The
  same is done with 'repeat until not a'.
2002-07-19 11:41:34 +00:00
compiler * State tracker work 2002-07-19 11:41:34 +00:00
demo * Renamefest 2002-06-02 17:34:21 +00:00
docs * const reference parameter clarification (now portable) 2002-06-16 08:24:18 +00:00
fcl * at and frame addresses in raise statements changed to pointer; fixed 2002-07-17 11:52:01 +00:00
fv * add DoneMouse in DoneEvents 2002-06-10 19:40:14 +00:00
fvision * add DoneMouse in DoneEvents 2002-06-10 19:40:14 +00:00
ide * try to avoid memory corruption if UserScreen is smaller than IDE screen on win32 2002-07-12 14:17:39 +00:00
install + OS/2 install.exe & TZ variable 2002-07-07 20:09:47 +00:00
installer + Unzip DLL fixes for warnings 2002-07-06 11:51:04 +00:00
packages * check for TZ variable added 2002-07-07 17:58:09 +00:00
rtl merged from FIXES branch: DrawTextBackground support 2002-07-18 07:11:11 +00:00
tests *** empty log message *** 2002-07-16 12:33:15 +00:00
utils * use special symbols for portability's sake 2002-07-14 13:39:45 +00:00
Makefile * Updated with new fpcmake target to make it work under QNX 2002-05-02 19:48:07 +00:00
Makefile.fpc + added QNX missing stuff 2002-05-01 14:29:53 +00:00

This is the README for the Free Pascal documentation.

All documentation is stored here, in LaTeX format. 
it uses special style files (fpc*.sty) which are also in the directory.

do a 'make dvi' to produce the dvi format of the docs.
a 'make html' will produce the html version (using latex2html).
a 'make ps' will produce PostScript documents.
a 'make pdf' will produce PDF (Portable Document Format) documents.
a 'make txt' will produce plain text documents.

If you want to produce dos docs, you can do a 'make htm' this will convert
the .html files to .htm files (including all references), suitable for a 8:3
format.

The rest of this document is only interesting if you want to write docs.
Otherwise, you can bail out now.

THE DOCS...

Why LaTeX ? 
- because I like a printed copy of the manuals, HTML just isn't good enough 
  for this.
- I know LaTeX very well :) (mind you : html also !)
- It converts to many other formats.
- many other reasons.

In order to translate the things to HTML, I use latex2html, since it is the
most powerful and flexible, although sluggish... 
For it to be able to use the fpc.sty, I had to write a fpc.perl script
which it loads. The script seems to run fine when used standalone, but in
conjunction with latex2html, I get a out of memory... ??
I'm not familiar with perl, so if someone is, and can fix the thing, please
do. (and let me know :) )

Then how to proceed ?
If you just want to write latex docs, just use fpc.sty. (you don't need
html.sty)
If you want to be able to convert to html, (you need html.sty) the following 
fixes the perl-problem :
In the preamble of  your document, type :

\usepackage{html}
\latex{\usepackage{fpc}}
\html{\input{fpc-html.tex}}

The fpc-html.tex defines the same commands as fpc.sty, only in a language
that latex2html understands.

fpc.sty.doc describes what fpc.sty does. (one day I'll integrate them using
the doc package, but I need some time for it)

Happy TeXing,
Michael.