Re: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Thu, 10 May 2012 17:05:33 +0200, Manuel Collado  
<m.collado@domain.invalid> a écrit:

> LaTeX is excellent in creating the final publishing format. But it lacks  
> enough separation between contents and presentation. Other XML-based  
> markup languages, like DocBook or DITA, seem much more appropriate

Even more DITA, and the authoring style which comes with it (and which is  
already there anyway in the actual RM authoring style). To my opinion, if  
DocBook is to be favored for something, that would be for learning  
materials, where a document is to be read from start to end, as an  
uninterrupted flow. The RM is more like a random‑access access document,  
with many self‑sufficient parts.

> IMHO, the most promising line of attack is to keep the current source  
> markup, and provide a lossless XML export facility.

I vote for that one too. Would be too much a nightmare with too few added  
value for Randy, to switch to another source format. If there is something  
to do at the source level, that's just to avoid potential lack of semantic  
markup (I noticed some a long time ago, but forget where, sorry, will tell  
if I land to it again).


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