On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 11:56 +0200, Juergen Reuter wrote: > Hi, > > FYI: I just googled for "syntax diagrams" and "generate" and found this > page: > > http://www.research.philips.com/technologies/syst_softw/elegant/ > > They offer a GPL'd tool for automatically generating syntax diagrams (in > PostScript format) for a given (E)BNF. There is a paper that documents > this tool: > http://www.research.philips.com/technologies/syst_softw/elegant/downloads/Diagrams.pdf > > Greetings, > Juergen
This is a cool tool! I apparently didn't find it in my googling because I was searching for Yacc, or Bison. As I looked at the Elegant pages, it appears to me that Elegant is not syntactically compatible with Yacc/Bison. Therefore, switching to Elegant would require a complete rewrite of the parser. This is a bigger job than I am personally up for. The benefits of this tool include being able to automatically generate both "true" BNF and graphical syntax diagrams. However, I didn't see in my relatively quick perusal any facility for including comments in the BNF output. Thanks, Carl -- Carl Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
