Re: Ada Reference Manual in texinfo format?

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Robert A Duff writes:
> Randy Brukardt writes:
>
>> Ludovic Brenta wrote in message
>> news:87sldpo83w.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org...
>>> Is there a texinfo version of the Ada 2005 Reference Manual?  I have
>>> it on paper (courtesy of Ada-Europe) but I'd like to be able to search
>>> it from within Emacs :)
>>>
>>> If no such version exists, is anyone working on one, or considering
>>> working on one?
>>
>> Stephen Leake did the module for converting the RM source to Texinfo as an
>> add-in the processing program for the RM+Corrigendum version. I didn't try
>> to maintain that module while working on Ada 2005, because I don't know
>> anything about Texinfo. I did talk to Stephen about it at one point, and we
>> agreed it would be best to wait until the RM was finished. Of course that
>> has happened; I don't know if he is still planning to update his Texinfo
>> module.
>>
>> In the mean time, you'll have to live with the HTML version and its search
>> engine. I just leave a browser page open to it at all times (saves reloading
>> it repeatedly).

Unless I'm mistaken, the search engine requires the www.adaic.com
server, so cannot work off-line.  This is a no go...

> Why not use the plain text version?  I use that to search within emacs.

Yes, that's a stop-gap measure but the Info version features
hyperlinks. Also, I would really like to update the
ada-reference-manual package in Debian.  This package currently
provides the ARM95 with TC1 in Info, HTML, and plain text, and the
AARM in HTML.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.