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Re: [Ada] User Guide?
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: Geert Bosch <bosch at gnat dot com>
- Cc: <guerby at acm dot org>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 12:42:47 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: [Ada] User Guide?
On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Geert Bosch wrote:
> 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).
The files checked into CVS should process in Texinfo without any special
magic or additional preprocessing, so they can go in onlinedocs. It's OK
if this gives a Unix-style manual and the VMS one is given by using
-DVMSSTYLE to texi2dvi/makeinfo/....
At present, gnat_rm.texi can't go in onlinedocs because it includes
nonexistent files texiplus (that include can be removed to make the file
work) and gfdl.texi (should be fdl.texi, in gcc/doc/include). With those
fixed the file works. What's the status of fixing those and the other
Texinfo and other style issues I noted with gnat_rm.texi and
gnat-style.texi?
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk