Re: [OT] gcc 3.4.2 Ada

From: CBFalconer (cbfalconer_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/05/04 

Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 06:45:51 GMT

Steve wrote:
> "CBFalconer" <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> Stephane Riviere wrote:
>>>
>> ... snip ...
>>>
>>> Docs in AIDE are mainly in PDF format. I've done a lot of ps->pdf
>>> or texinfo->pdf translation. Although PDF is not a native windows
>>> format, it is usually well accepted.
>>
>> Not around here. If the information is representable in texinfo
>> format it is easily converted into text, html, ps, pdf, or info
>> files, and is probably much more compact than a pdf
>> representation. text and info are easily searched, and html
>> adapts especially easily to a variety of page dimensions.
>
> Personally, I'd rather have documentation in either PDF, HTML or
> plain text. I know I can download tools to convert from info or ps
> to something usable, but I do so very infrequently so it is a pain
> to download the tools and re-figure out how to use them.

So keep the tools once you have downloaded them. Write an alias or
two to do the conversions you really need. Or scripts or batch
files or whatever.

Top-posting fixed. 

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