need hint for adabrowse usage
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From: JPWoodruff on 18 Dec 2007 17:27 -- I've been using adabrowse4.0.1 successfully for some time but I just -- noticed a fact about the html I'd like help with. -- I don't know how to collect Ada comments that have empty spaces -- between them in the way I've formatted these paragraphs. -- I've been reading the User's Guide - I think I need to know more -- about "A comment block is any sequence of consecutive Ada 95 comment -- lines that start with the same prefix." But what is the relationship -- between adjacent comment blocks? -- U-G has "Description." controls to represent Ada comments, but I'm -- puzzled why all but one of separate comment blocks disappear from the -- html. Sorry to say html is, (uhm), not exactly my speciality. -- A specific case in point that I'm unable to process properly is -- gnat-regpat.ads in the gnat3.15 suite. John
From: Randy Brukardt on 18 Dec 2007 17:48 <JPWoodruff(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:c598ef51-35ec-4da1-8b8e-2d3d35704577(a)e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com... .... > -- I don't know how to collect Ada comments that have empty spaces > -- between them in the way I've formatted these paragraphs. HTML ignores all strings of spaces -- they all display as a single space. That's a basic feature of HTML and there isn't much AdaBrowse or any other tool can do about it. (And I've tried for the ARM formatter!!) If you're using spaces to get the effect of tabs, it simply isn't possible in HTML. There are no tabs; the only way to get columnar layout is to format as a table or to format everything in fixed fonts -- the former is very difficult to do with unstructured source, and the latter is horribly ugly. Net-net, you're bumping into limitations of HTML; it doesn't work the same as plain text. Randy.
From: JPWoodruff on 18 Dec 2007 18:17 On Dec 18, 3:48 pm, "Randy Brukardt" <ra...(a)rrsoftware.com> wrote: > <JPWoodr...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:c598ef51-35ec-4da1-8b8e-2d3d35704577(a)e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > ... > > > -- I don't know how to collect Ada comments that have empty spaces > > -- between them in the way I've formatted these paragraphs. > > HTML ignores all strings of spaces -- they all display as a single space. > That's a basic feature of HTML and there isn't much AdaBrowse or any other > tool can do about it. (And I've tried for the ARM formatter!!) > > If you're using spaces to get the effect of tabs, it simply isn't possible I guess I was pretty unclear about my question. Here's try2: The Ada source file (g-regpat.ads for example) has comment blocks with a blank line separating each. But when I run adabrowse, the output file -.html has only one of the comment blocks. Adabrowse did not write the others. So I probably need the correct incantation for Adabrowse's -.cfg file. Anybody got a clue for me? John
From: Georg Bauhaus on 18 Dec 2007 18:04 On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 16:48 -0600, Randy Brukardt wrote: > <JPWoodruff(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:c598ef51-35ec-4da1-8b8e-2d3d35704577(a)e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > ... > > -- I don't know how to collect Ada comments that have empty spaces > > -- between them in the way I've formatted these paragraphs. > If you're using spaces to get the effect of tabs, it simply isn't possible > in HTML. There are no tabs; the only way to get columnar layout is to format > as a table or to format everything in fixed fonts -- the former is very > difficult to do with unstructured source, and the latter is horribly ugly. I beg to differ, http://home.arcor.de/bauhaus/Tools/ASnip/sample-rm.html and http://home.arcor.de/bauhaus/Tools/ASnip/sample-antiq.html :)
From: Randy Brukardt on 19 Dec 2007 18:08 "Georg Bauhaus" <rm.tsoh+bauhaus(a)maps.futureapps.de> wrote in message news:1198019081.6939.1.camel(a)K72... > > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 16:48 -0600, Randy Brukardt wrote: > > <JPWoodruff(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:c598ef51-35ec-4da1-8b8e-2d3d35704577(a)e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > > ... > > > -- I don't know how to collect Ada comments that have empty spaces > > > -- between them in the way I've formatted these paragraphs. > > > If you're using spaces to get the effect of tabs, it simply isn't possible > > in HTML. There are no tabs; the only way to get columnar layout is to format > > as a table or to format everything in fixed fonts -- the former is very > > difficult to do with unstructured source, and the latter is horribly ugly. > > I beg to differ, > > http://home.arcor.de/bauhaus/Tools/ASnip/sample-rm.html > and > http://home.arcor.de/bauhaus/Tools/ASnip/sample-antiq.html > > :) That's the ugly fixed font solution that I was talking about. It's probably the best that can be done avoiding tables, but for a lot of purposes (program code is one of the exceptions) it isn't very good. For instance, using it means that the width of the text is fixed, which means that the ability of the HTML to adjust to different screen sizes is lost. If you want text to look like: <term> <lengthy definition> <term> <another lengthy definition> That is very hard to do in a portable manner. I've fought browser issues and tooling issues a lot in getting that sort of thing to look good -- but it is best to avoid it. Randy.
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