Feature Request - Raw HTML in ddoc comments

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Fri Feb 22 01:52:29 PST 2008


Janice Caron wrote:
> Bah! HTML is now the single most portable document format on the
> planet. It is almost trivial to convert from HTML to any other format.

Yeah, but I've seen what happens to HTML that is auto-translated to PDF. 
It's awful.

> ddoc is OK for documenting functions and classes and the like, but
> tedious for more involved documentation such as a tutorial. (For
> example, single colon anywhere inside a ddoc comment can completely
> screw up the layout).

The entire Digital Mars website is generated with ddoc. It's saved me 
tremendous time over the earlier versions which were handcoded HTML. 
I've also done other sites, all 100% ddoc (like 
http://www.generalatomic.com )



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