From: nholsti@icon.fi (Niklas Holsti)
Subject: Re: Looking for AWEB; TeX in Ada?
Date: 1999/03/15
Date: 1999-03-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7cjfmk$94h$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7ca3gl$bp8$1@news.interlog.com
Nick Roberts wrote:
>
> Brief update: I've unpacked, gnatchopped, and compiled everything in sight;
> ATANGLE compiles, and seems to run (I can't easily tell if correctly);
> AWEAVE fails to compile miserably (there seems to be a lot either missing or
> misnamed).
I have a compiling copy; I can email it to you if you like. I've not
used it
seriously, but I played with it a little some time ago. I don't recall
making
any major changes; there are some warnings about variables that are
never
assigned a value.
> The source code I've tried to compile is the Ada source supplied
> (partially krunched); it is also effectively supplied in the form of AWEB
> files, but ATANGLE doesn't seem to produce any result (other than a deeply
> cryptic --{31:} type comment all on its own). Back to square one I think.
> C'est la vie!
You found the AWEB files -- good. ATANGLE seems to expect its input AWEB
file to be named "input.aweb". It creates an output file "web_output.a",
which contains just the weird comment you quote. However, it also
generates
a number of .a files that contain the Ada code. Didn't you get these?
Personally, I would look for a tool that generates HTML, but this may
be just a prejudice against TeX. There are tools that generate HTML
from straight Ada, but they don't give you the reordering (weaving and
tangling) of the Web tools. Then again, I don't feel a great need to
reorganise Ada code in this way; the Ada package structure seems to
give me what I need, contrary to Pascal (the original Web target)
with its strict ordering and lack of modularisation. YMMV.
> -------------------------------------
> Nick Roberts
> -------------------------------------
Niklas Holsti
Working at but not speaking for Space Systems Finlan Ltd.
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-08 0:00 Looking for AWEB Nick Roberts
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Looking for AWEB; TeX in Ada? Nick Roberts
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti [this message]
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
[not found] ` <7cooqo$mdf$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
1999-03-17 0:00 ` AWEB; Enhanced Document Encoding Mike Harrison
1999-03-17 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1999-03-18 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-03-19 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-19 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Patrick Mérissert-Coffinières
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Martin Kew
1999-04-13 0:00 ` nospam!bob
1999-03-21 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1999-03-19 0:00 ` Laurent Gasser (CSCS)
1999-03-25 0:00 ` FREDERICK LONG
1999-03-17 0:00 ` Looking for AWEB; TeX in Ada? Laurent Gasser (CSCS)
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