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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: "Gerry Agbobada" <gerry@gagbo.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Status of syntax specification
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 15:55:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zha5qrds.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6c7479aa-3f0d-462a-8c5d-cb55840417f1@www.fastmail.com> (Gerry Agbobada's message of "Sun, 17 May 2020 11:54:50 +0200")

Hello,

"Gerry Agbobada" <gerry@gagbo.net> writes:

> I found on Worg a "draft" for org syntax description : https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html
>
> Do you think this paper marked as draft is good enough to use as
> a source to make a parser ?

It is "good enough", but possibly slightly inaccurate at some points.

It would need proof reading, and comparing with "org-element.el", the
actual implementation of the syntax. Formalization may be better better,
too.

> I think it'd be nice to try to finalize this ; but I don't know who to contact to see how I can help
> if I know almost nothing about standards and technical writing.

Reading it and comparing with documentation might help.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou


  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-18 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-17  9:54 Status of syntax specification Gerry Agbobada
2020-05-18 13:55 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2020-05-19  8:44   ` Gerry Agbobada

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