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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6487f59679c615d8 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.239.134 with SMTP id vs6mr1976901pbc.4.1336118295286; Fri, 04 May 2012 00:58:15 -0700 (PDT) Path: pr3ni2296pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format References: <82aa1ud0l3.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <82r4v4azlf.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 08:58:34 +0100 Message-ID: <82zk9ojs2d.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IxJo4wSSoAN41u6Za3gA/GpIxSo= MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: 734394fa38c0ce029e66120167 X-Received-Bytes: 2598 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: 2012-05-04T08:58:34+01:00 List-Id: Jerrid Kimball writes: > On 05/01/2012 06:51 AM, Stephen Leake wrote: >> Jerrid Kimball writes: >> >>> Thank you very much! These are very nice and emacs seems to handle >>> info pages very well. >> >> Good to get some feedback :) >> >>> I'm slowly getting to putting some modern-looking versions on the web >>> based on the work of a fellow #ada IRC channel visitor. I hope to get >>> to it soon. I'll keep CLA informed! >> >> Hmm. What is "not modern" about info in Emacs? Many people think it is >> the best of the currently available IDEs. > > You've encountered lexical ambiguity. Yes, which is why I asked for clarification. > I didn't intend to suggest that emacs' display of the info page isn't > modern. Ok, good. > My intent is to eventually put a RM tool on the interwebs that > eclipses the official RM in its presentation and accompanying > functionality. In what way? Can you point to an example of what you intend to do? Intending to "eclipse" an existing valuable resource doesn't sound very friendly, just competitive. > It's just another thing that will make Ada more appealing to the > uninitiated. "More appealing" is more friendly. But that needs to start with a survey of the uninitiated; not an easy thing to do. > Small steps.. Reformatting the entire ARM is _not_ a small effort! Perhaps you could spend that energy improving the Ada Programming wikibook, instead? >> But if you do come up with something useful, perhaps it could be >> incorporated into the ada-reference-manual Debian package. Or the upstream source code. In particular, code to process the Scheme source and output a GPS- or Eclipse- friendly format for the index would be very nice. -- -- Stephe