Re: Annotated Reference Manual: Text to HTML

[Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>]

Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

> Marc Wachowitz wrote:
> > 
> > I've written a simple Perl script which transforms the text version of the
> > Annotated Ada-95 Reference Manual into a set of html documents - though only
> > links from/to a table of contents and the previous/next section/annex are
> > created. The result isn't very beautiful, but sufficient for me to save lots
> > of paper. Feel free to use it as you like (improvements are welcome, though
> > I'm only interested if it works with lynx, a text-mode browser).
> > 
> > The text version of the AARM is available as
> > ftp://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/public/AdaIC/standards/95lrm_rat/v6.0/aarm.txt
> 
> Hope you didn't spend too much time on this; the html rationale is on
> AdaHome, at:
> 
> http://www.adahome.com/Resources/refs/rat95.html

Actually the AARM and the Rationale are quite different. I find the
AARM useful when trying to puzzle out some obscure point. Also, it
makes a good text-only reference for searching in your favourite text
editor (one that'll take 2.8MB, anyway).

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