From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rainer Stengele Subject: Re: Formal description of Org files Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:54:40 +0200 Message-ID: <4DA807D0.8050207@diplan.de> References: <4213EBED-2EFC-413F-8618-2A594AECEDCF@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47398) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QAenc-0003TW-GN for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 04:54:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QAenb-00026y-Ns for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 04:54:44 -0400 Received: from ns.diplan.de ([212.34.188.4]:48138 helo=mail.diplan.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QAenb-00025r-Fo for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 04:54:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4213EBED-2EFC-413F-8618-2A594AECEDCF@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Carsten Dominik Cc: emacs-orgmode mailing list Am 15.04.2011 09:58, schrieb Carsten Dominik: > Hi, > > I have a question. > > At FOSDEM, someone asked me if there was a formal description of the structure of Org files, in some language that would be the input for a parser (or parser generator?) so that Org file could be easily parsed. > > Unfortunately I did not catch the name of the format description language that could be > used for something, not did I catch the name of the person who talked to me. > > Can anyone help out here? Let me know what language to use, and maybe help work on such a formal description? I think it would be useful to have.... > > - Carsten > Hi, maybe Backus-Naur was meant? - Rainer