Re: info version of Ada Reference Manual

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>]

ev_remove_this_anssl21@earthlink.net (Arthur Evans Jr) writes:

> In article <mailman.12.1070585826.31149.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>,
> Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org> wrote:
> 
> > The current manual is generated by some Ada code that reads the
> > vaguely-Scribe like source
>   [snip]
> 
> The source for the original Ada-95 manual was not Scribe-like but was
> Scribe. Two different header files existed, one to produce the ARM and one
> to produce the AARM (Annotated ARM). Scribe supports macros, and these
> header files had complex macro definitions to achieve the desired effects.
> 
> The last time I checked, maybe six or eight years ago, Cygnet was
> supporting Scribe processors on a variety of platforms.

Ok. Did any of those processors produce info (or Texinfo) format?

I did a quick web search for "cygnet scribe"; found lots of neat
stuff, but not a Scribe processor :). Do you have a URL or more
complete company name?

The current Ada code (see
http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin-acats/cvsweb.cgi/) also outputs both
the ARM and the AARM, and also does various versions (original, with
TC1, with/without changes). So adding the capability to produce
Texinfo to that Ada code is the best approach in the long run, I
believe.

The "changes" are marked with crossouts and underlines (as in MS Word
with Change Tracking turned on). Since info doesn't support that, I'm
not trying to support the "with changes" option in my Ada code. But I
will try outputting the AARM.

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