Re: Ada Reference Manual in texinfo format?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote in message
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> >> In the mean time, you'll have to live with the HTML version and its
search
> >> engine. I just leave a browser page open to it at all times (saves
reloading
> >> it repeatedly).
>
> Unless I'm mistaken, the search engine requires the www.adaic.com
> server, so cannot work off-line.  This is a no go...

That's true, but I didn't know anyone worked off-line anymore.

I've toyed with making a search program using the indexes for the search
engine (it's all Ada code after all), but since I only know how to do that
in Windows, I didn't think it was worth the effort. (There was such a
program that was used for testing the search engine in the early going, but
it is clunky to use the results, as you get a bunch of URLs which you have
to manually paste into your browser. I know how to fix that on Windows, I'm
not aware of any similar capabilities on Linux.)

> > Why not use the plain text version?  I use that to search within emacs.
>
> Yes, that's a stop-gap measure but the Info version features
> hyperlinks. Also, I would really like to update the
> ada-reference-manual package in Debian.  This package currently
> provides the ARM95 with TC1 in Info, HTML, and plain text, and the
> AARM in HTML.

I should add that I'll be happy to assist anyone that wants to update the
TexInfo module. I don't think it would be that hard, as Stephen has already
done much of the heavy lifting.

                                     Randy.