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From: John McCabe on 7 May 2008 06:25
On Tue, 6 May 2008 10:06:06 -0700 (PDT), Lucretia
<lucretia9(a)lycos.co.uk> wrote:

>On 6 May, 12:04, John McCabe <j...(a)nospam.assen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Does anyone have a PDF of the ARM formatted for A4 paper? Couldn't
>> find one on the net (but I may not have looked as hard as I could
>> have!).
>>
>> John
>
>Do they distribute the LaTeX source? If they do, it's trivial to
>generate an A4 document.

It's not LaTeX as far as I know, but they do distribute the source
with a formatter.

http://www.ada-auth.org/arm.html

From: John McCabe on 7 May 2008 06:27
On Tue, 6 May 2008 15:48:20 -0500, "Randy Brukardt"
<randy(a)rrsoftware.com> wrote:

>(4) Load that into Word 2003 (other word processors *may* work, but only
>Word 97 and Word 2003 are *known* to work [and Word 2000 is known *not* to
>work]. I'll be trying OpenOffice 2.4 the next time I need to work on the
>ARM).

I've just tried OpenOffice 2.4 with the RTF created, it just hangs as
far as I can see - I had to kill it off. Maybe it will work better on
a non-Microsoft platform, or one with more than 1GB of RAM :-)

From: John McCabe on 7 May 2008 08:19
On Wed, 07 May 2008 10:38:49 +0100, John McCabe
<john(a)nospam.assen.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>>(6) Apply the half-dozen hand patches. Regenerate the table-of-contents.

>Are the half-dozen hand patches described anywhere?

This is what I've found - note that I changed copied RM.MSM to
RMA4.MSM and changed:

@RTFPageSize{Ada95}

to

@RTFPageSize{A4}

Hence it may be that some paragraph numbers, such as that in item 10
below, may be different for you as it looks like that one's due to a
page break.

1: Paragraph 6/2 (Introduction) - "Design Goals". Need to format the
paragraph number (6/2) frame so that the horizontal distance from the
text is 0cm.

2: Paragraph 61 (Introduction) - "Instructions for Comment Submission"
section. Need to format the paragraph number (61) frame so that the
horizontal distance from the text is 0cm.

3: Paragraph 60/2 (Introduction) - "Instructions for Comment
Submission" section. Need to format the paragraph number (60/2) frame
so that the horizontal distance from the text is 0cm. NOTE: Item 2
needs to be done first!!!

4: Paragraph 71.4/2 (Introduction) - Need to format the paragraph
number (71.4/2) frame so that the horizontal distance from the text is
0cm.

5: "Information technology - Programming Languages - Ada". Need to
format the paragraph and set the line spacing to "At Least" instead of
"Exactly" (13pt).

6: Paragraph 24 (1.1.2 Structure)" - Need to format the paragraph
number (24) to have spacing before of 4pt instead of 10pt (note, not
the paragraph frame this time).

7: Paragraph 10 (1.1.4 Method of Description and Syntax Notation) -
Need to format the paragraph number frame so that the horizontal
distance from the text is 0cm.

8: Paragraph 12 (1.1.4 Method of Description and Syntax Notation) -
Need to format the paragraph number frame so that the horizontal
distance from the text is 0cm.

9: Paragraph 14 (1.1.4 Method of Description and Syntax Notation) -
Need to format the paragraph number frame so that the horizontal
distance from the text is 0cm.

10: Paragraph 8.2 (12 Normative Reference) - Need to format the
paragraph number frame so that the horizontal distance from the text
is 0cm (which will take it on to the page that the text is on), then
put it back to 0.26cm (which will align it properly. Note this may be
because of the position MS Word decides for the page break, so you may
get this somewhere else.

11: Paragraph 8.2 (2.3 Identifiers) - Need to format the paragraph
number frame so that the horizontal distance from the text is 0cm.

Ok - any more "Need to format the paragraph number frame ... " are
ignored - you'll just have to find them for yourself.

Actually... I gave up on doing it by hand. The following macro in word
will reformat all of the frames so that their horizontal distance from
text is 0cm. Seems to look ok on both sides (the main problem was on
right hand side pages!)

Sub ReformatFrames()
Dim nextFrame As Frame

For Each nextFrame In Application.ActiveDocument.Frames
nextFrame.Select
nextFrame.HorizontalDistanceFromText = CentimetersToPoints(0)
Next nextFrame
End Sub


If I find any other odd bits, I'll let you know.

John
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