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From: nholsti@icon.fi (Niklas Holsti)
Subject: Re: Looking for AWEB; TeX in Ada?
Date: 1999/03/15
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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.