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Grammar rules in Contributor Guide summary are fragmented


From: Robin Bannister
Subject: Grammar rules in Contributor Guide summary are fragmented
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 22:04:11 +0100
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Hallo,


The Contributor Guide appendix 'LilyPond grammar' displays a summary (ly-grammar.txt) which is derived from a summary produced by bison.

In the first section a production rule has a label on the left which introduces the alternatives listed on the right. Or rather, _most_ rules are like that, but for a few of them the label occurs twice. So if you are looking for a rule and find it, you may overlook some of its alternatives.

This is OK by bison (and maybe a practised eye) but not by me.
So I propose a readability enhancement where there is only one label per rule and submit a revised yyout2grammar.py which caters for this.

While testing it I noticed and corrected several errors:
  - the elimination of @-items in the alternatives is inaccurate
  - in the second section, continuation lines pile up at the top
  - in the third section, more than 30 nonterminals are missing and
    @-rules are included

In the script, the production rule part is completely rewritten and the
rest is extensively refactored. See yyout2g_robin_A.py

I worked with bison-2.4.1 (GnuWin32) and obtained parser.yy and yyout2grammar.py from git a few days ago, i.e post 2.19.80.
The following summaries are generated from that snapshot:
  - before: ly-grammar.txt
  - after:  ly-g_robin_A.txt


  Cheers,
  Robin

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Attachment: ly-g_robin_A.txt
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