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Subject: Re: info version of Ada Reference Manual
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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>
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Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org> writes:

> 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.

Aye.  There Is Only One Editor (but vim is the Other).

> 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, I am.  I use the info version of the ARM (without TC1) every day
from within emacs.  BTW, thanks to Florian Weimer for the Debian
package `ada-reference-manual'.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.