Re: ada/5907: The Ada front end lacks a proper manual

[Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>]

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Florian Weimer wrote:
> "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >
> >> The VMS version requires substantial postprocessing (words are
> >> replaced globally, file names are rewritten).  It is not possible to
> >> express this in Texinfo.

Yes it is:
def: @set GCC gcc
use: @value{GCC}

Not that it's a solution here.

> > Why not?  If the standard manual needs the word "foo", where the VMS
> > manual needs "bar", why shouldn't a macro @foo{} (with different
> > definitions in the two cases) work?
>
> We would need a couple of hundered macros, I think.  For example, the
> preprocessing rewrites all strings like "hello.adb" to "HELLO.ADB",
> "hello.o" to "HELLO.OBJ", and so on.  If you had to write
> "@helloadb{}" and "@helloo{}", reading the sources would become rather
> difficult.

Can't you make @file{} or an equivalent do that transformation?
If the docs are as other doc files in the tree, it would already
use @file{} around file names.

brgds, H-P