Re: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format

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

Le Fri, 11 May 2012 04:07:10 +0200, Oliver Kleinke  
<oliver.kleinke@c-01a.de> a écrit:
>> In Randy's defense, any more sophisticated access would require a hole
>> in his firewall.
>
> lol, k
>
>> > Providing a modern HTML version does not exclude the possibility to
>> > provide a more 'compatible' version,
>>
>> You have yet to define what you mean by either "modern" or
>> "compatible", either by example or description.
>
> For instance the paragraphs have no anchors, thus the possibility of
> deep-linking is limited. The Index has neither anchors for the letters
> nor links to them at the top. I can think of a lot more.

In Randy's defense too, the anchor matter is more a browser matter than an  
Ada‑RM source matter. Even in DocBook and others, you don't give  
everything an identifier or name. You give one for some context, and then  
access more specific components of that context with XPath and its  
expressions. Ex. if browser would support it, you could access the nth  
paragraph of a given chapter. Unfortunately, browsers don't. To give  
anchors to everything would be too much.

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