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On 15 Apr 2011, at 14:58, Christian Egli wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> Maybe the person was talking about antlr[1], "ANother Tool for =
Language
> Recognition, a language tool that provides a framework for =
constructing
> recognizers, interpreters, compilers, and translators from grammatical
> descriptions containing actions in a variety of target languages=94.
<snip>

> Sounds like an interesting project.

Wow, if that thing can export syntax diagrams in PNG or PDF I=92d be =
really happy. Looks very interesting =97 albeit serious overkill for =
what I=92d use it :-).

thanks,
Peter.
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