From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com,
emacs-orgmode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com>,
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Formal description of Org files
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:09:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32582.1310836143@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Bastien <bzg@altern.org> of "Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:56:18 +0200." <87aacew4el.fsf@gnu.org>
Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
> Hi Marcelo,
>
> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm creating a web app that interacts with orgmode files and allows
> > you to edit orgmode files on the browser. The edit part is not done.
>
> Wow, this would be a really useful tool. Can't wait to test this!
>
> > I'm quite good at Javascript, and I wouldn't mind hacking something
> > akin to orgmode elisp code and this will be what I'll do if
> > everything else fails, but wouldn't using a grammar be a cleaner and
> > more elegant solution?
>
> Can you tell more about what you mean by "grammar"?
>
A formal grammar of some sort I presume: BNF or EBNF.
> Back in february, at FOSDEM, someone asked for a description of the
> org-mode format specification. This is still something that needs to be
> done. Any stab at this (on Worg) would be really nice. You can start
> anywhere (headlines, TODO keywords, etc.)
>
> If the "grammar" needs to be described in a specific format (more than
> just a formal description of the various syntactic elements of an Org
> file), let us know.
>
There was a discussion about this on the list a few months ago, but I
can't get to search.gmane.org to find the thread atm, although I can get
to news.gmane.org: is that me or is gmane's search on the fritz?
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-16 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-15 7:58 Formal description of Org files Carsten Dominik
2011-04-15 8:54 ` Rainer Stengele
2011-04-15 10:57 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-04-15 11:50 ` Peter Frings
2011-04-15 12:05 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-04-15 15:25 ` Jambunathan K
2011-04-20 11:57 ` Olaf.Hamann
2011-04-15 12:58 ` Christian Egli
2011-04-15 13:42 ` Peter Frings
2011-04-15 13:52 ` Filippo A. Salustri
2011-04-15 14:20 ` Wes Hardaker
2011-04-15 17:29 ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-15 18:31 ` Nick Dokos
2011-04-20 12:37 ` Olivier Schwander
2011-07-15 18:07 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-07-16 16:56 ` Bastien
2011-07-16 17:09 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-07-16 17:12 ` Bastien
2011-07-16 18:00 ` Searching the org list (was: Formal description of Org files) Memnon Anon
2011-07-16 18:21 ` Formal description of Org files suvayu ali
2011-07-16 18:43 ` Nick Dokos
2011-07-17 23:14 ` Eric Schulte
2011-07-18 9:30 ` Christopher Witte
2011-07-18 23:32 ` Bastien
2011-07-18 21:02 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-07-18 21:03 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-07-18 11:04 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-07-18 23:35 ` Bastien
2011-07-19 6:16 ` Jambunathan K
2011-07-24 18:58 ` Bastien
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-04-15 17:13 Rustom Mody
2011-04-15 17:27 ` MidLifeXis at PerlMonks
2014-09-21 12:10 Gustav Wikström
2014-09-21 12:43 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-10-02 8:28 ` Samuel Loury
2014-10-02 17:03 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-10-04 19:49 ` Gustav Wikström
2014-09-26 8:12 ` Eric S Fraga
2014-09-26 12:53 ` Grant Rettke
2014-09-26 20:51 ` Eric S Fraga
2014-10-04 19:41 ` Gustav Wikström
2014-10-06 14:22 ` Samuel Loury
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