From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b88c7b1a4db3246c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.net!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Reference Manual in texinfo format? Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:19:51 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <87sldpo83w.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <4dCdncquF5TP71_YnZ2dnUVZ_tOmnZ2d@megapath.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1170379194 22078 192.74.137.71 (2 Feb 2007 01:19:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 01:19:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nz0aW1Dt7HSobMHoyM/GMqG+bGg= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8831 Date: 2007-02-01T20:19:51-05:00 List-Id: "Randy Brukardt" writes: > "Ludovic Brenta" wrote in message > news:87sldpo83w.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org... >> Is there a texinfo version of the Ada 2005 Reference Manual? I have >> it on paper (courtesy of Ada-Europe) but I'd like to be able to search >> it from within Emacs :) >> >> If no such version exists, is anyone working on one, or considering >> working on one? > > Stephen Leake did the module for converting the RM source to Texinfo as an > add-in the processing program for the RM+Corrigendum version. I didn't try > to maintain that module while working on Ada 2005, because I don't know > anything about Texinfo. I did talk to Stephen about it at one point, and we > agreed it would be best to wait until the RM was finished. Of course that > has happened; I don't know if he is still planning to update his Texinfo > module. > > In the mean time, you'll have to live with the HTML version and its search > engine. I just leave a browser page open to it at all times (saves reloading > it repeatedly). Why not use the plain text version? I use that to search within emacs. - Bob