Re: [Bug-gnupress] Comments on gcc.006.txt

[Simon Law]

On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 08:07:41PM -0700, Paul A. Crable wrote:
> >        I'm not sure how you are getting each section as a
> > text file since I've been rendering PDFs...
> 
> I open the file in Adobe Acrobat, click on the "text select"
> button, select all the text, and copy it to the clipboard.
> I then open an ascii file and paste into it the contents of
> the clipboard.  I loose all formatting but at least the text
> is there and I don't have to type everything in.

        I see.  That is a rather novel way of dealing with the
situation.

> >        Any form of representation is fine, as long as I
> > can read it. If you prepare a patch, then it saves me the
> > work of interpreting what you typed and editing the Texinfo
> > myself.
> 
> I'm afraid Texinfo is a Great Mystery to me but I will look
> at your web site and see what I can pick up.

        Texinfo files are merely text files.  (You can find them in the
gcc.tar.bz2 tarball as *.texi files.)  You should consult the excellent
Texinfo manual for the syntax, although you can probably glean much by
inspection.

> >        It may not be object code, as GCC is
> > merely a driver program.  It could be assembler or even a
> > directed acyclic graph for human consumption.
> 
> I learn more every day.  What is a "directed acyclic graph"?

        A directed acyclic graph is, to put it in layman's terms, a
graph where objects are related to one another, and these relations
don't have to go both ways.  (So Jim is Sue's father, but Sue is not
Jim's father.)  GCC can be convinced to spit out these graphs so that
people can see how a program is structured.

> >     Paul Crable             Editing gcc.{001,002,008}.pdf,
> > edited gcc.006.pdf
> 
> I'm sorry to say I have only provided you edits of the first
> of 17 sections in gcc.006.pdf, so I couldn't claim to have
> edited it yet.

        I will revise my records.

> Lastly, I have a sneaking suspicion I have ventured into a Unix 
> world, about which I am woefully ignorant. I am doing all my work on 
> an Intel architecture laptop running Win2k, so it will take me some 
> time to get acclimated.

        Ah yes.  Unix is not as scary as it purports to be, and since we
are merely editing text; your choice of platform should not matter too
much.

Simon