Re: Help making ada pretty

[berlich@pc66.mppmu.mpg.de (Ruediger Berlich)]

CSC Trusted Systems Group (csctsg@adam.com.au) wrote:
: Hi,

: I am looking for any tools around to print ada-code in a more presentable 
: form, ie keywords bolded etc. apparently they sometimes go by the name 
: "pretty printers", however I do not want to rejustify the code in any 
: way, I only require the bolding type features. 

: Also am looking for any latex tools for typesetting ada.
: as I rarely have time to read mews replies to csctsg@adam.com.au would 
: greatly be appreciated

Hi,
if you have xemacs (ver. 19.13) around , you could try to use
the syntax-hilighting-function.
Highlighting via different fonts (bold,italic, also possible via
colours) is available from the menus by a simple mouse-click.
Since xemacs is able to print postscript, you can print out
the highlighted program.
This is the way I usually print C/C++ and Fortran-programs.
Since I only just started programming in Ada (yesterday :-)
I haven't tried to print Ada-code from xemacs. I only know that there is an
Ada-mode for xemacs and that it can  highlight keywords, comments, ...
Printing should be easy then.
Use the command
<ESC>-<x> ps-print-buffer-with-faces <RETURN> 
to print the higlighted buffer.
Please be aware, that I'm not talking about the X-version of GNU-emacs
but about the emacs-version formerly known as Lucid-emacs, which is
now for some unknown reason called xemacs.
This has a pretty nice X/Motif-Interface. It is available for free
from the same places where you get GNU-emacs.
Otherwise check out 
http://xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu/
It also does automatic indentation of the program, if you want that.

Bye and have a nice day,
Ruediger Berlich
[berlich@pc66.mppmu.mpg.de]