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-Thread: 103376,6487f59679c615d8 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.219.66 with SMTP id pm2mr219878pbc.8.1336784889532; Fri, 11 May 2012 18:08:09 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: pr3ni15570pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!volia.net!news2.volia.net!feed-A.news.volia.net!news.ecp.fr!news.jacob-sparre.dk!munin.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 20:08:03 -0500 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: <82aa1ud0l3.fsf@stephe-leake.org><20120509131736.63c924c8@vostro> <20120511043604.344c13a8@vostro> NNTP-Posting-Host: static-69-95-181-76.mad.choiceone.net X-Trace: munin.nbi.dk 1336784887 22365 69.95.181.76 (12 May 2012 01:08:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 01:08:07 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Date: 2012-05-11T20:08:03-05:00 List-Id: "Oliver Kleinke" wrote in message news:20120511043604.344c13a8@vostro... > Am Wed, 9 May 2012 20:54:32 -0500 > schrieb "Randy Brukardt" : > >> "Oliver Kleinke" wrote in message >> news:20120509131736.63c924c8@vostro... >> >... >> > Honestly, you should consider converting the sources to a more >> > appropriate format. >> >> The sources are still in the original Scribe format used by Jean >> Ichbiah's team back in the 1970s. Some sort of conversion (without >> losing any information) would be pretty expensive, even if it could >> be automated. (Preserving the comments in the files would be hard, >> for instance, as the formatter discards them immediately.) > > I concur; however, it might still be worth it in the long run. Maybe it > would suffice to progressively make adjustments to the current format, > for example converting some of the style-markup into semantic-markup > (bold to keyword where it is appropriate, &c.) The original sources were somewhat inconsistent about this. I try to use the semantic markup whenever possible (@key, @nt, @syni, @examcom, etc. -- keyword, non-terminal, syntax italics [the prefixes to syntax terms, like @SynI@nt], and example comment respectively) but I probably forget from time-to-time like any human. And there probably are a few others that could have been defined. >> ... >> There is are ZIP files with the complete set of sources, both to the >> tools and the RM (Scribe-like) source. But I think the links >> disappeared, because I can't find them. (Something else for the todo >> list.) > > I did not find any of ZIP files, if I overlooked them it was of course > my mistake and I shall withdraw my accusations. I didn't find them, either, which is weird because my batch files make them every time I post a new version of the Standard. Not sure why links to them never got added to the web site. I've added that to me "todo" list. Randy. >> Not sure what you mean by the "HEAD versions have been broken", >> because this is a frequently updated copy of the repository on my >> computer, and I'm pretty sure there is no broken source on my >> computer. :-) If you have any examples, I'll look into them. > > With broken I meant inconsistencies. I'll tip you off if I encounter > that problem again ;-) > > > Oliver >