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Subject: Re: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format
Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 16:23:23 +0200
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Le Fri, 04 May 2012 09:58:34 +0200, Stephen Leake  =

<stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> a =C3=A9crit:
>> Small steps..
>
> Reformatting the entire ARM is _not_ a small effort!
>
> Perhaps you could spend that energy improving the Ada Programming
> wikibook, instead?

I feel some low level reformatting may be as much worth as a contributio=
n  =

to the Ada wikibook: a DITA formated ARM may be the best option among al=
l.  =

As the numerous DITA publishing chains support many target formats (my  =

favorite is the webhelp format, provided by Ditac from XMLMind), no one =
 =

would bother any more about what the actual format is. That's the benefi=
t  =

of single sourcing, as they like to say in the DITA world.

But they may be reasons we don't know for the source format to be what i=
t  =

actually is.

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=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