Re: Ada and Internationalization

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>]

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
> news:1b6kk4c3suwjg.84fral2281gm$.dlg@40tude.net...
> ...
>> In a recent project I had a similar problem. In place of localization
> there
>> were different rendering devices: Text, HTML, GTK etc. It ended up with a
>> primitive operation defined on objects, that had a class-wide argument
>> controlling the output parameters. Needless to say, that I am not
> satisfied
>> with this design.
>
> I had a similar problem with the formatting tool that produces the Ada
> Reference Manual and other good stuff. (In fact, it is essentially the same
> problem.) I ended up defining an "output object" abstract type, with
> instances of the type for text, HTML, and RTF. The needed operations for
> formatting and the like are defined for the abstract type. The formatting
> engine takes an output object and writes to it as needed.
>
> The design was fairly successful; Stephen Leake created a new type and
> object to support TextInfo output. 

That's "TexInfo" :)

> He was able to do that fairly successfully with the interface
> already provided.

Yes, it is a good design.

Can't wait to do it again for Ada 2005 (2006?). Any update on the
schedule for that? I gather we are waiting for the ISO process to
grind thru.

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-- Stephe