Re: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Jerrid Kimball" <jerrid@kimball.co> wrote in message 
news:joe7ad$ntc$1@munin.nbi.dk...
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> So--and this is directed at Randy also--feel free to stay away from 
> anything Oliver or I perceive as innovations on the front of community 
> building ad if you don't have useful discourse, ...

As I said to Oliver, I don't want to see a fork in the (HTML) Standard, even 
in its presentation. What I *would* like to see is some concrete suggestions 
for improving the navigation and readability of the existing HTML Standard. 
That would lift *all* boats. After all, I can regenerate and repost *all* of 
the versions of the Ada Standard going back to Ada 95 with improvements 
(I've done that several times as bugs and problems with newer browsers have 
been uncovered). And I admit, I have no idea of what you think a "modern" 
website ought to look like. All of the ones I look at waste large amounts of 
screen space on ads, which certainly is "modern" but is a trend that 
hopefully has nothing to do with the Ada Standard (or any other public 
documents, for that matter).

I really don't like when people intend to "improve" something without making 
suggestions to the original author, who probably has a much better idea of 
the intended usages and the gotchas than anyone else could.

Anyway, enough griping. I'm interested in concrete suggestions that can be 
implemented (not to promise that they would be). But be aware that I don't 
have much budget for RM work at this point, so I can't promise anything.

                          Randy.