Re: info version of Ada Reference Manual

[Fionn mac Cuimhaill <invisible@hiding.from.spam>]

On 04 Dec 2003 19:56:43 -0500, Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
wrote:

>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?

Yes. It would be a good companion to the Ada compiler that is now a
part of GCC.