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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,f20f5dfbb5c26c12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-12-04 17:08:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Stephane Richard" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: info version of Ada Reference Manual X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 01:08:00 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.44.78.153 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1070586480 129.44.78.153 (Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:08:00 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:08:00 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3140 Date: 2003-12-05T01:08:00+00:00 List-Id: I'm interested :-)....But I don't know how to get it, generate it, read it from, whichever method is used. -- St�phane Richard "Ada World" Webmaster http://www.adaworld.com "Stephen Leake" 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 >