From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13282 invoked by alias); 2 Dec 2001 03:52:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 13243 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2001 03:52:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nile.gnat.com) (205.232.38.5) by hostedprojects.ges.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Dec 2001 03:52:27 -0000 Received: from DARWIN.GNAT.COM (NANCY.GNAT.COM [205.232.38.104]) by nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FFD5F28AF; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 22:51:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 19:52:00 -0000 Subject: Re: [Ada] User Guide? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v475) Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org To: guerby@acm.org From: Geert Bosch In-Reply-To: <200112011134.fB1BYNA16933@ulmo.localdomain> Message-Id: <022D9B00-E6D8-11D5-A27C-00039344BF4A@gnat.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.475) X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00013.txt.bz2 On Saturday, December 1, 2001, at 06:34 , 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