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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 19:54:35 -0500
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"Stephen Leake" <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote in message 
news:82havtjnix.fsf@stephe-leake.org...
> "Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:
...
>> But they may be reasons we don't know for the source format to be what
>> it actually is.
>
> That's easy; apparently DITA was invented in 2001; the ARM scheme
> sources were started for Ada 95 (if not earlier).

Right. The Ada 95 sources used the same tool as the Ada 83 sources, with a 
new set of macros.

I just wrote an Ada program to process the existing Ada 95 source code (with 
a few simplifications; mainly, I got rid of all of the macros and the 
support for that). That meant we were no longer dependent on an ancient (but 
powerful) text formatter; anyone with an Ada compiler can build a version of 
my formatter.

It's fairly easy to add a new output module (as Stephen can attest); that's 
the preferred way to make new versions of the Standard, simply because it 
will handle both older and newer editions of the Standard.

                            Randy.