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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f20f5dfbb5c26c12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-12-04 20:36:03 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!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller.gnilink.net!nwrddc01.gnilink.net.POSTED!da33a4ab!not-for-mail From: Fionn mac Cuimhaill Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: info version of Ada Reference Manual Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.91/32.564 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 04:36:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.41.197.98 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc01.gnilink.net 1070598961 4.41.197.98 (Thu, 04 Dec 2003 23:36:01 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 23:36:01 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3144 Date: 2003-12-05T04:36:01+00:00 List-Id: On 04 Dec 2003 19:56:43 -0500, Stephen Leake 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.