From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,594ba004bb886c71 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <41623CE5.FCCE444A@yahoo.com> From: CBFalconer Reply-To: cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net Organization: Ched Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] gcc 3.4.2 Ada References: <4155167B.C0DC007B@yahoo.com> <0Pk5d.9793$gG4.888@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> <878yaw523k.fsf@insalien.org> <415fba69.57543983@news.free.fr> <41627119.1476703@news.free.fr> <41618FCE.D732CAAF@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 06:45:51 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.76.144.243 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1096958751 12.76.144.243 (Tue, 05 Oct 2004 06:45:51 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 06:45:51 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4710 Date: 2004-10-05T06:45:51+00:00 List-Id: Steve wrote: > "CBFalconer" wrote in message >> Stephane Riviere wrote: >>> >> ... snip ... >>> >>> Docs in AIDE are mainly in PDF format. I've done a lot of ps->pdf >>> or texinfo->pdf translation. Although PDF is not a native windows >>> format, it is usually well accepted. >> >> Not around here. If the information is representable in texinfo >> format it is easily converted into text, html, ps, pdf, or info >> files, and is probably much more compact than a pdf >> representation. text and info are easily searched, and html >> adapts especially easily to a variety of page dimensions. > > Personally, I'd rather have documentation in either PDF, HTML or > plain text. I know I can download tools to convert from info or ps > to something usable, but I do so very infrequently so it is a pain > to download the tools and re-figure out how to use them. So keep the tools once you have downloaded them. Write an alias or two to do the conversions you really need. Or scripts or batch files or whatever. Top-posting fixed. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer@yahoo.com) (cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. USE worldnet address!