From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28577 invoked by alias); 10 Mar 2002 11:56:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-prs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-prs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 28554 invoked by uid 71); 10 Mar 2002 11:56:01 -0000 Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 03:56:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20020310115601.28551.qmail@sources.redhat.com> To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org, From: "Joseph S. Myers" Subject: Re: ada/5907: The Ada front end lacks a proper manual Reply-To: "Joseph S. Myers" X-SW-Source: 2002-03/txt/msg00313.txt.bz2 List-Id: The following reply was made to PR ada/5907; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Joseph S. Myers" To: Florian Weimer Cc: , , Subject: Re: ada/5907: The Ada front end lacks a proper manual Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 11:50:36 +0000 (GMT) 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. 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? > I think it would be possible to change the manual so that you can > build all the other version straight from the Texinfo sources, > but this might reduce maintainability. There would be two rather > different ways to build the manual, the Texinfo markup would be a I don't think however the VMS way of building the manual would be of relevance to the FSF sources - I think having just one version, covering all systems, is generally preferred for GNU manuals. (If it were done simply by a VMS Texinfo conditional, it might still make sense not to define that conditional when building the GNU manual on VMS.) > bit clumsy, and the TeX implementation of Texinfo doesn't handle > extensive use of conditional processing and macros very well. On the What are the problems? -- Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk