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,b88c7b1a4db3246c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.scarlet.biz!news.scarlet.biz.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:28:36 -0600 From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Reference Manual in texinfo format? References: <87sldpo83w.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <4dCdncquF5TP71_YnZ2dnUVZ_tOmnZ2d@megapath.net> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:28:36 +0100 Message-ID: <87ododnetn.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aKysF6oULsz6zeYfL2t+wMgV+b0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.235.209.242 X-Trace: sv3-fBZffB/LyTf/P3fzbvajpnP1AzUR8eueHDM15n2OeJSoPMaqNBw+A9gTokGO0VhCNoVzjkr+CtJ22k2!kDheUo/5RGQ4MRtF5b3251rlYz16inkABlqfq+aOEsESN0P938S1img5BKTWCDwlGCYiLx0XGXQ= X-Complaints-To: abuse@scarlet.be X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@scarlet.biz X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8836 Date: 2007-02-02T09:28:36+01:00 List-Id: 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.