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Subject: Re: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 04:44:14 +0200
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Date: 2012-05-11T04:44:14+02:00
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Le Fri, 11 May 2012 04:07:10 +0200, Oliver Kleinke  =

<oliver.kleinke@c-01a.de> a =C3=A9crit:
>> In Randy's defense, any more sophisticated access would require a hol=
e
>> 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=E2=80=91RM source matter. Even in DocBook and others, you don't give=
  =

everything an identifier or name. You give one for some context, and the=
n  =

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.

-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity