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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 17:43:32 -0500
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"Manuel Collado" <m.collado@domain.invalid> wrote in message 
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> If the aim is to make the ARM usable as a reference for developers (say 
> from an IDE), then it will be necessary to have it indexed also by:
> - language keywords
> - library functions and other global symbols

It is, of course, indexed by those in Annexes P and Q, but...

> In its current form, the ARM index is not adequate for using it as context 
> sensitive help from within an Ada IDE.

...this is certainly true; the indexes were not created with that in mind. 
But note that all of those (text) indexes are created by a program and it 
would be easy enough for someone to write a machine-readable index as 
well -- it's all just Ada code, after all.

                                            Randy.