Re: ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 0.7)

Re: ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 0.7)

[ica2ph]

In article <mailman.1031055722.5839.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> you wrote:
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>  Title      : A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE GNU ADA RUN-TIME
>  Version    : Beta 0.7
>  Last Update: September, 3, 2002
>  Author     : Javier Miranda
>  Access     : http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/users/jmiranda

Javier,

the pdf-version seems to be crippled insofar that the headlines
are cut by 3/4 , i.e. unreadable

regards,
Peter


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not nice... Re: ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 0.7)

[Peter Hermann]

This happened to me: I wanted to give a personal reply (feedback)
and must observe that this is published to CLA! 

This is not nice.

The reply_to_mail_address was comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org (!)
of which I was unaware.

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ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 0.7)

[Javier Miranda]

-------------------------------------------------------------
 Title      : A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE GNU ADA RUN-TIME
 Version    : Beta 0.7
 Last Update: September, 3, 2002
 Author     : Javier Miranda
 Access     : http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/users/jmiranda
 Chapters   :
   1. The GNAT Project
   2. Task Types and Objects (upgraded)
   3. The Rendezvous (upgraded)
   4. Protected Objects (upgraded)
   5. Time and clocks (new chapter)
   6. Interrupts
   7. Exceptions (new chapter)
   8. Abort and Asynchronous Transfer of Control (new chapter)
   9. Bibliography.
-------------------------------------------------------------

 Goal:

 To provide to the Ada community an On-line book which
 can be used for research and for teaching.

 Brief Description:

 HTML Document which describes the behaviour of the
 Run-Time of the free GNU Ada compiler (GNAT). Its main
 features are:

  - It is free. Permission is granted to copy, distribute
    and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU
    Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later
    version published by the Free Software Foundation.

  - The html version of the document is linked with the
    html version of the GNAT 3.14p run-time sources.
    This allows the reader to verify the contents of
    the book by clicking the html reference to the
    source file where each concept is handled by the
    Run-Time.

  - All the html files of the GNAT sources are also linked.
    This enables the reader a quick access to the point of
    declaration of the Run-Time variables and types,
    to follow the calls to subprograms, etc. and to
    go backward.

  - It is linked with the Annotated Ada Reference Manual
    (Technical Corrigendum 1). Any reference to the AARM
    has a link to the corresponding section.

  - Most of the papers referenced in the book are free
    accessible from the NEC CiteSeer Scientific Literature
    Digital Library (http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs)

-------------------------------------------------------------
Javier Miranda. Canary Islands (Spain), 2002.

Re: not nice... Re: ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 0.7)

[sk]

Hi,

If you are receiving cla through the mailing list, every
message is "Reply-To : comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org" and is
an issue of the cla news-server, not the OP.


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Re: ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 0.7)

[Jim Rogers]

ica2ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de wrote:

> In article <mailman.1031055722.5839.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> you wrote:
> 
>>-------------------------------------------------------------
>> Title      : A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE GNU ADA RUN-TIME
>> Version    : Beta 0.7
>> Last Update: September, 3, 2002
>> Author     : Javier Miranda
>> Access     : http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/users/jmiranda
>>
> 
> Javier,
> 
> the pdf-version seems to be crippled insofar that the headlines
> are cut by 3/4 , i.e. unreadable


It worked correctly when I read it using Acrobat Reader version 4.0.

Jim Rogers

Re: ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 0.7) - Thanks!

[Warren W. Gay VE3WWG]

Jim Rogers wrote:
> ica2ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de wrote:
>> In article <mailman.1031055722.5839.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> you wrote:
>>> Title      : A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE GNU ADA RUN-TIME
>>> Version    : Beta 0.7
>>> Last Update: September, 3, 2002
>>> Author     : Javier Miranda
>>> Access     : http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/users/jmiranda
>>
>> Javier,
>>
>> the pdf-version seems to be crippled insofar that the headlines
>> are cut by 3/4 , i.e. unreadable
> 
> It worked correctly when I read it using Acrobat Reader version 4.0.
> 
> Jim Rogers

Are you sure you were looking at the top of page "headlines"?
The rest was OK, indeed.

Looking at it with version 5.0, I had the same experience
(top headlines are cut). The postscript version is fine though.

Anyway, no one yet has thanked Javier for his work. What I've
had time to see so far (just a skim), is a significant amount
of effort on his part.  So I'll offer my hearty thanks for his
contribution! I am looking forward to reading it.

Warren.
-- 
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg

Re: ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 0.7) - Thanks!

[Jim Rogers]

Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:

> Jim Rogers wrote:
> 
>> ica2ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de wrote:
>>
>>> In article <mailman.1031055722.5839.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> you wrote:
>>>
>>>> Title      : A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE GNU ADA RUN-TIME
>>>> Version    : Beta 0.7
>>>> Last Update: September, 3, 2002
>>>> Author     : Javier Miranda
>>>> Access     : http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/users/jmiranda
>>>
>>>
>>> Javier,
>>>
>>> the pdf-version seems to be crippled insofar that the headlines
>>> are cut by 3/4 , i.e. unreadable
>>
>>
>> It worked correctly when I read it using Acrobat Reader version 4.0.
>>
>> Jim Rogers
> 
> 
> Are you sure you were looking at the top of page "headlines"?
> The rest was OK, indeed.
> 
> Looking at it with version 5.0, I had the same experience
> (top headlines are cut). The postscript version is fine though.


You are correct. I do now see some partial artifacts from the page
headers.

Jim Rogers

Re: ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 0.7) - Thanks!

[Jeffrey D. Cherry]

"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> wrote in news:3D74EA9A.1030101
@cogeco.ca:

> Jim Rogers wrote:
>> ica2ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de wrote:
>>> In article <mailman.1031055722.5839.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> you wrote:
>>>> Title      : A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE GNU ADA RUN-TIME
>>>> Version    : Beta 0.7
>>>> Last Update: September, 3, 2002
>>>> Author     : Javier Miranda
>>>> Access     : http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/users/jmiranda
>>>
>>> Javier,
>>>
>>> the pdf-version seems to be crippled insofar that the headlines are cut
>>> by 3/4 , i.e. unreadable 
>> 
>> It worked correctly when I read it using Acrobat Reader version 4.0.
>> 
>> Jim Rogers
> 
> Are you sure you were looking at the top of page "headlines"?
> The rest was OK, indeed.
> 
> Looking at it with version 5.0, I had the same experience
> (top headlines are cut). The postscript version is fine though.
> 
> Anyway, no one yet has thanked Javier for his work. What I've
> had time to see so far (just a skim), is a significant amount
> of effort on his part.  So I'll offer my hearty thanks for his
> contribution! I am looking forward to reading it.
> 
> Warren.

I would also like to thank Javier.  That is quite a document!  
I look forward to reading it as well.

The problem with the PDF version is easy to fix.  The PDF version 
was created with Ghostscript with a target of Letter size paper 
(8.5 x 11 inches), which was probably different than the paper 
size used to create the original document.  If you download the 
Postscript version and then translate it to PDF using a target 
paper size of A4 (21 x 29.7 centimeters), then the result is a 
very nice looking document with no page headers cut off.

Thanks again Javier!



-- 
Regards,
Jeffrey D. Cherry
Senior IV&V Analyst
Northrop Grumman Information Technology

Re: ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 0.7) - Thanks!

[Javier Miranda]

In reply to: Peter Herman, Jim Rogers, Warren W.Gay, and Jeffrey D.Cherry:

   The PDF file was generated by the ps2pdf filter which comes with the
Linux Debian 3.0 distribution. I just checked it with the acrobat reader
available for Linux and (erroneously!) I assummed it was well generated.
I will try to solve this problem today !

    I am already cooking the donwloadable HTML version. It is 5MB length
organized in several directories. Therefore I have to write a small bash 
program
which modifies the links of the html sources to simplify the installation.

   Thank you very much for your comments (and for your "thanks") !!

---- Javier Miranda

Jeffrey D. Cherry wrote:

>"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> wrote in news:3D74EA9A.1030101
>@cogeco.ca:
>
>  
>
>>Jim Rogers wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>ica2ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>In article <mailman.1031055722.5839.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> you wrote:
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>Title      : A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE GNU ADA RUN-TIME
>>>>>Version    : Beta 0.7
>>>>>Last Update: September, 3, 2002
>>>>>Author     : Javier Miranda
>>>>>Access     : http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/users/jmiranda
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Javier,
>>>>
>>>>the pdf-version seems to be crippled insofar that the headlines are cut
>>>>by 3/4 , i.e. unreadable 
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>It worked correctly when I read it using Acrobat Reader version 4.0.
>>>
>>>Jim Rogers
>>>      
>>>
>>Are you sure you were looking at the top of page "headlines"?
>>The rest was OK, indeed.
>>
>>Looking at it with version 5.0, I had the same experience
>>(top headlines are cut). The postscript version is fine though.
>>
>>Anyway, no one yet has thanked Javier for his work. What I've
>>had time to see so far (just a skim), is a significant amount
>>of effort on his part.  So I'll offer my hearty thanks for his
>>contribution! I am looking forward to reading it.
>>
>>Warren.
>>    
>>
>
>I would also like to thank Javier.  That is quite a document!  
>I look forward to reading it as well.
>
>The problem with the PDF version is easy to fix.  The PDF version 
>was created with Ghostscript with a target of Letter size paper 
>(8.5 x 11 inches), which was probably different than the paper 
>size used to create the original document.  If you download the 
>Postscript version and then translate it to PDF using a target 
>paper size of A4 (21 x 29.7 centimeters), then the result is a 
>very nice looking document with no page headers cut off.
>
>Thanks again Javier!
>
>
>
>  
>

Re: ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 0.7) - Thanks!

[Peter Hermann]

> In reply to: Peter Herman, Jim Rogers, Warren W.Gay, and Jeffrey D.Cherry:

You may draw conclusions from a proverb from my south German region (-:
"Nothing said is enough praised"

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Re: ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 0.7)

[Javier Miranda]

Hi all !

   I have just upgraded the server (http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/users/jmiranda)
with a new version of the PDF file which solves the problems. The PS and
DVI files have also been upgraded to keep the files consistent.

---- Javier Miranda

Re: ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 0.7) - Thanks!

[Javier Miranda]

Hi all !

  I have just upgraded the server (http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/users/jmiranda)
with a new version of the PDF file which solves the problems. The PS and
DVI files have also been upgraded to keep the files consistent.

---- Javier Miranda

Re: ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 0.7) - Thanks!

[Wes Groleau]

>   I have just upgraded the server (http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/users/jmiranda)
> with a new version of the PDF file which solves the problems. The PS and

�Gracias!  �Hay una versi�n espa�ola
o es solamente ingl�s?  (No puedo usar
la red ahorita.)

-- 
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau

Re: ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 0.7) - Thanks!

[Javier Miranda]

There is no spanish version of the book. I have focussed my work on the
english version because it can be read by most of the people.

--- Javier

Translated into Spanish:

No hay versi�n en espa�ol del libro. He centrado mi trabajo en la versi�n
inglesa porque es la que puede leer la mayoria de la gente.

--- Javier

Wes Groleau wrote:

>>  I have just upgraded the server (http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/users/jmiranda)
>>with a new version of the PDF file which solves the problems. The PS and
>>    
>>
>
>�Gracias!  �Hay una versi�n espa�ola
>o es solamente ingl�s?  (No puedo usar
>la red ahorita.)
>
>  
>

Re: ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 0.7) - Thanks!

[Javier Miranda]

   I have upgraded the server (http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/users/jmiranda)
with a new file which allows to install the html sources of the book locally
(in your preferred local directory) or remotely (in your preferred web
page).

----- Javier Miranda

Re: ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 0.7)

[Javier Miranda]

  I have upgraded the server (http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/users/jmiranda)
with the LaTeX sources (and figures) of the book.

  The full link is:

http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/users/jmiranda/gnat-rts/gnat-rts-freebook-sources-0.7.tgz

----- Javier Miranda

University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Canary Islands
Spain

Re: ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 0.7) - Thanks!

[Javier Miranda]

 I have upgraded the server (http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/users/jmiranda)
with the LaTeX sources (and figures) of the book.

 The full link is:

http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/users/jmiranda/gnat-rts/gnat-rts-freebook-sources-0.7.tgz 



Therefore, the current distribution contains:
  - PS, PDF, DVI files (the full book ready to be printed)
  - html sources (with one script which facilitates the
    local or remote installation of the htmls sources).
  - LaTeX sources (which facilitates the collaboration to
    enhance the quality of the book).

----- Javier Miranda

University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Canary Islands
Spain