Tim,
If you get/have a enthusiastic and excited volunteer, then consider them.
If you want someone who is reasonably laid back and patiently manages
lists mail without unnecessary interference then I am happy to manage
lists, even in ugly Mailman software. :-)
I have managed mailing lists for
On 03/23/2010 08:06 AM, Damon Wang wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm interested in porting texvc to Python, and I was hoping this list
here might help me hash out the plan. Please let me know if I should
take my questions elsewhere.
Roughly, my plan of attack would be something like this:
1.
2010/3/23 Conrad Irwin conrad.ir...@googlemail.com:
Instead of rewriting the math parser, it might be more productive to
create parsers for some of the other languages that extensions use,
hopefully with a view to adding additional extensions to Wikipedia. The
ones I can think of immediately
Hello Conrad,
2. Implement an AMS-TeX validator
How different would this be from the current validator?
It should be exactly the same, except written in Python.
5. Repackage the entire Math thing as an extension
I might do this if I have time left at the end. I'm sure the project
will
2010/3/23 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com:
I've never used PHP for real programming, but how difficult would it be
to write a really simple, stupid first pass at a DFA parser? I suspect
I'd need much more than three months to make it useful, but would it be
possible to implement
On 03/23/2010 05:00 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote:
I suggested a Python port because
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010#MediaWiki_core
lists it as a potential project idea. I was under the impression that
people around here did not want to leave texvc in OCaml. Is this wrong?
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote:
DFAs parse regular languages, which means those languages can also be
expressed as regexes. In fact, the regexes accepted by the preg_*()
functions allow certain extensions to the language theory definition
of regular
2010/3/23 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com:
This much I know, but is LaTeX actually a regular language?
I don't know; I was just making the point that writing a DFA parser in
PHP is probably not very useful.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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Hello Rob,
Just to be really clear, I'm not looking for a right answer on any of
those questions. It's not necessary for you to be even interested in
getting deeply involved in the Wikipedia user community to have a really
successful project. The purpose of this line of questions is to
On 03/23/2010 05:23 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote:
DFAs parse regular languages, which means those languages can also be
expressed as regexes. In fact, the regexes accepted by the preg_*()
functions allow certain extensions
Python is a nice language. PHP (portability) or C/C++ (speed) would be
better but Python is preferable to OCaml.
You mention ANTLR, something like that could be a good because it should
allow to generate the same parser in a different language with not so
much effort (probably you won't have
Conrad Irwin wrote:
On 03/23/2010 05:23 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote:
DFAs parse regular languages, which means those languages can also be
expressed as regexes. In fact, the regexes accepted by the preg_*()
functions allow
I think we should really consider LOLCODE for this sort of thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcode
It's just more fun!
- Trevor
On 3/23/10 3:44 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
Conrad Irwin wrote:
On 03/23/2010 05:23 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Roan
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Damon Wang damonw...@uchicago.edu wrote:
I've been writing projects
for university and for a computer lab I work at, but it's mostly small,
one-off sysadmin things and usually the emphasis is more on xyz server
has to be back up before we open tomorrow than
Happy-melon wrote:
I took it to mean that he wanted to split the math parsing out as a
**MediaWiki** extension, implementing math as a parser tag hook in the
usual way. Which is definitely highly desirable.
--HM
Making it a MediaWiki extension is of course desirable (moving texvc out
of
Hi,
I created such an extension [1] to return to the exact rendering of a
page at a given time.
It is still experimental and need some other improvements,
particularly to take into account the moves and deletions applied on a
template.
~ Seb35 [^_^]
[1]
On 03/23/2010 10:44 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
Just because a language is context-sensitive doesn't mean it will be
hard to write a parser for it. That's just a myth propagated by
computer scientists who, strangely enough given their profession, have
a disdain for the algorithm as a descriptive
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