From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Cc: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>,
nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org,
Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:09:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4466.1301936993@alphaville.usa.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> of "Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:36:33 EDT." <87lizqug6m.fsf@fastmail.fm>
Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:
> Hi Jambunathan,
>
> Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:
> >
> >> I agree that the org-exporter currently does its job very well. The
> >> astounding utility of org-mode is ample proof of the value of releasing
> >> early; even if the exporter is not as elegant as a modern compiler, it
> >> works. :)
> >>
> >> That said, I very much support Nicolas' proposal.
> >
> > A quick (prototype) exporter demoing Nicolas's proposal could be
> > developed by using my new org-html.el in under few hours.
> >
> > Think of it this way: If something could be XML-ified it could be
> > lispified. My exporter already has a common core that emits html and odt
> > and it is a matter of altering few callbacks so that it generates a
> > lispy list instead of XML.
>
> Thanks for all the hard work on your exporter and the rewrite! I look
> forward to looking at it more closely very soon.
>
> In the meantime, does anyone have advice on how to start creating a
> formal syntax definition for org-mode? Any good links or resources we
> might check out?
EBNF is pretty much the standard metasyntax for context-free grammars (check Wikipedia).
However, I doubt org is context-free, so EBNF might need extensions to deal with it.
Or it can do the context-free part and any context-dependent stuff is superimposed on
that.
Nick
>
> I'm guessing that writing a formal definition is more complex than
> simply defining org-mode syntax in prose---that we are after something a
> little more formal and symbolic than "a headline is demarcated by one or
> more asterisks beginning at column 0 of a new line...." Is that correct?
>
> Best,
> Matt
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-04 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-22 12:10 unnumbered subsections in latex export Suvayu Ali
2011-03-22 12:20 ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-03-22 12:31 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-03-22 12:56 ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-03-22 14:26 ` [PATCH] Allow mixed export of numbered and unnumbered sections in LaTeX Lawrence Mitchell
2011-03-22 22:52 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-03-23 14:04 ` [Accepted] " Bastien Guerry
2011-03-23 14:17 ` [PATCH] " Bastien
2011-03-22 14:35 ` Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export Nick Dokos
2011-03-22 23:08 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-03-22 23:21 ` Nick Dokos
2011-03-23 9:38 ` [PATCH] Allow mixed export of numbered and unnumbered sections in HTML Lawrence Mitchell
2011-03-23 14:05 ` [Accepted] " Bastien Guerry
2011-03-23 14:57 ` Nick Dokos
2011-03-23 15:50 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-03-23 14:18 ` Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export Bastien
2011-03-23 15:02 ` Nick Dokos
2011-03-23 16:25 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2011-03-23 16:42 ` Nick Dokos
2011-03-23 18:17 ` Jambunathan K
2011-03-23 19:00 ` Nick Dokos
2011-03-23 19:18 ` Jambunathan K
2011-03-23 16:29 ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-03-23 17:42 ` Jambunathan K
2011-03-24 7:59 ` Bastien
2011-03-24 18:27 ` Achim Gratz
2011-03-24 19:25 ` Nick Dokos
2011-03-25 1:06 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-04-04 14:39 ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-04-04 17:04 ` Nick Dokos
2011-04-04 20:32 ` Aankhen
2011-04-05 10:16 ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-04-05 19:07 ` Aankhen
2011-04-05 19:27 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-04-05 21:25 ` New features for the exporters? Sébastien Vauban
2011-04-05 21:45 ` Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export Aankhen
2011-04-06 18:49 ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-06 20:19 ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-03-27 11:16 ` Jambunathan K
2011-03-27 11:40 ` Bastien
2011-03-31 21:58 ` Nicolas
2011-04-01 4:34 ` Jambunathan K
2011-04-01 4:41 ` Jambunathan K
2011-04-01 6:29 ` Nick Dokos
2011-04-01 15:41 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-04-04 14:00 ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-04 14:12 ` Jambunathan K
2011-04-04 16:36 ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-04 17:09 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-04-01 7:39 ` Jambunathan K
2011-04-01 18:25 ` Achim Gratz
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