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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f20f5dfbb5c26c12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-12-04 16:59:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: info version of Ada Reference Manual Date: 04 Dec 2003 19:56:43 -0500 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1070585827 94307 80.67.180.195 (5 Dec 2003 00:57:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:57:07 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p5 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list List-Id: Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3139 Date: 2003-12-04T19:56:43-05:00 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. 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? -- -- Stephe