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authorGraeme Geldenhuys <graeme@mastermaths.co.za>2011-07-25 16:20:51 +0200
committerGraeme Geldenhuys <graeme@mastermaths.co.za>2011-07-25 16:20:51 +0200
commitcae278760bb0337eda37aa0cf7b50c69b7ce3cb3 (patch)
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parent8955692e201887391e65048d23900936d854618d (diff)
downloadfpGUI-cae278760bb0337eda37aa0cf7b50c69b7ce3cb3.tar.xz
docview help: improved some grammar in the help text.
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@@ -936,15 +936,18 @@ comes to the rescue! A developer from the OpenWatcom (http://www.openwatcom.org)
implemented a clean room implementation of the IPF Compiler, by simply using the
origin IPF Compiler documentation as a guide. This new compiler is called WIPC, and
is 100% compatible with the original IBM version.
+
:p.
For your convenience I included the OpenWatcom IPF Compiler as part of fpGUI Toolkit.
You can find pre-built Windows and Linux binaries in the <fpgui>/tools/wipfc/ directory.
+
:p.
-One huge benefit of the WIPFC compiler over the original IBM version, is that it
-is much easier to author help files. With the original IBM version the source help text
-was very tedious to write. Every symbol or punctuation like a comma, semi-colon, hyphen etc. and to be
-written as special "escaped" keyword. This requirement (and labour intensive work) was
+One huge benefit of the WIPFC compiler over the original IBM IPFC version, is that it
+is much easier to author help files. With the original IBM version the help text source
+was very tedious to write. Every symbol or punctuation like a comma, semi-colon, hyphen etc. had to be
+written as special "escaped" symbol. This requirement, which was very labour intensive, was
luckily removed from the WIPFC version.
+
:p.
fpGUI also includes the IPF Language Reference document (IPFREF_v4.INF) as part
of fpGUI Toolkit. You can find this INF document in the
@@ -953,13 +956,15 @@ of fpGUI Toolkit. You can find this INF document in the
files. All markup tags (with the exception of 5 tags) start with a colon and end
with a fullstop. The tags are mnemonic, making it easy to assocciate them with
their function.
+
:p.
There are still some GUI IPF editors out there, but most of them are only for
OS/2 (and maybe for Windows). The IPF Language is actually really easy to learn
and understand, so you don't really need a special editor. I used my programming IDE
as my editor, and simply supplied it with a syntax highlighter for the IPF language.
-No extra tools needed. Just so you know, that is what I used to author this help
+No extra tools are needed. Just so you know, that is what I used to author this help
document. :-)
+
:p.
Here is an example of a small IPF document to get you started. I'll also show you
how to compile it into a binary INF file - viewable with DocView of course. ;-)