PasDoc v0.16.0 released - Documentation tool for Pascal source code

[Fr0sT.Brutal 899]

Long awaited release of powerful open-source documentation generator for Pascal code is out.

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•     New website, using Jekyll, generated from our wiki, see https://github.com/pasdoc/pasdoc.github.io (Michalis)
•     Moved everything to GitHub
•     Ancestors list is now affected by external class hierarchy (Michalis)
•     Markdown support (Fr0sT-Brutal)
•     Supporting bold, italic, inline code, multi-line code, URLs, lists.
•     @note and @warning tags (Bi0T1N)
•     @url tag (Bi0T1N)
•     Allow to lowercase output of @nil, @false, @true by --lowercase-keywords (Bi0T1N)
•     Automatically detect flag like [xxx] at @param description.
•     See here for example. (PifPof)
•     Scan implementation section of a unit in addition to the interface section (Fr0sT-Brutal)
•     Parser improvements to correctly handle some special cases: reading chars > $FF, "*.inc" includes, files with Mac-style line endings (Fr0sT-Brutal)
•     Mem leaks fixed (Fr0sT-Brutal)
•     Tag parameters now could be multiline without enclosing parens by means of "line feed" character "" (Fr0sT-Brutal)
•     Read additional command-line options from file (Fr0sT-Brutal)
•     --auto-back-comments command-line option (Fr0sT-Brutal)
•     pasdoc_gui opens a file given at command-line, opening WWW browser is optional
•     (Fr0sT-Brutal)
•     @longcode without markers fixed (Michalis)
•     Support for namespaces in units in @links (Fr0sT-Brutal)
•     --ignore-marker option (Fr0sT-Brutal)
•     Test suite fixes and better documentation, in particular for Windows users
•     Catalan translation updated (Xavier Martínez)
•     Delphi Tokyo files, to compile all projects and packages (Carlos Feitoza Filho)
•     Brazilian Portuguese translation updated (Carlos Feitoza Filho)
•     Parse identifiers declared as &xxx, where "xxx" may be a reserved word.
•     Possibility to specify additional files using -A or --additional
•     (just like introduction or conclusion, but you can provide any number
•     of items) (Alex Merkel)
•     Added de.utf8 (German with UTF-8 encoding)
•     Automatically remove %region and %endregion from comments
•     Show visibility (public, protected, private...) inside records too
•     (it is meanigful for advanced records)
•     Implement in pasdoc_gui options to (Michalis)
•         customize HTML head and body
•         set external descriptions file
•         configure identifiers excluded from auto-linking
•     Rename "internal" to "nested" to describe this language feature.
•     Because that is how it's called in official docs
•     ( http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Tokyo/en/Nested_Type_Declarations,
•     https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse41.html )
•     and the "internal" word has traditionally different meaning
•     ("something not supposed to be visible/used from the outside"). (Michalis)
•     The automatic tests are now easier to run and check (see tests/README.md) (Michalis)
•     @raises and @param is now supported at properties as well as methods.
•     Actually, it's supported everywhere now, but it makes sense only at properties and methods now.
•     (Michalis)
•     Tipue (client-side search) improvements:
•         we have upgraded to use Tipue 6.1, which highlights the found terms
•         we strip HTML from Tipue index, which makes the "search results" page correct
•     Fix handling SVN fixed-length $Date::
•     Parsing of $if and $elseif expressions, like defined(MSWINDOWS) or defined(UNIX) (Michalis)

Edited February 10, 2021 by Fr0sT.Brutal