Re: info version of Ada Reference Manual

["Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net>]

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I'm interested :-)....But I don't know how to get it, generate it, read it
from, whichever method is used.

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St�phane Richard
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"Stephen Leake" <stephen_leake@acm.org> wrote in message
news:mailman.12.1070585826.31149.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org...
> In some earlier GNAT distributions (3.15 and earlier? ) there was an
> info version of the Ada Reference Manual. However, on the official
> website (http://www.adaic.org/standards/ada95.html) for the current
> LRM (which has the Technical Corrigendum included), there is no info
> version. Info format is good for Emacs; it's close to plain text plus
> hyperlinks, and is fully searchable.
>
> The current manual is generated by some Ada code that reads the
> vaguely-Scribe like source and generates RTF, HTML, or plain text. I'm
> working on adding Texinfo as an output format, which can then generate
> info. This will give us a current info version, and any future
> versions (Ada 200x).
>
> Does anyone know how the old info version was generated? Maybe I can
> just do that again, or get some hints on how they formatted things.
>
> Is anyone else interested in an info version?
>
> -- 
> -- Stephe
>