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Re: [Ada] User Guide?
- From: Geert Bosch <bosch at gnat dot com>
- To: guerby at acm dot org
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 22:52:30 -0500
- Subject: Re: [Ada] User Guide?
On Saturday, December 1, 2001, at 06:34 , <guerby@acm.org> wrote:
> I was just making a pass at the available Ada documentation and found
> only the GNAT Reference Manual in CVS (gnat_rm.texi). Is there any
> reason why the User Guide (gnat_ug.texi) is not in there yet? If
> it's just some stupid formatting to do, I volunteer, just drop me the
> file (IIRC I did the original SGI framemaker to texinfo pass, this will
> close the loop :).
Yes, that is the reason. In particular, we have preprocessing done
in order to get correct VMS documentation. This involves replacing
mentions of UNIX-style options by VMS-style long ones and a number
of other things. The preprocessor script is written in SPITBOL, which
is not acceptable for the GCC tree.
We all agree this should be done using TeXinfo preprocessing magic if
possible, or with a program in C or Ada otherwise (possibly using
the GNAT.Spitbol package).
Florian Weimer has already been working on this, but there were still
some remaining issues. Please contact him for details.
-Geert