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Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export
From: |
Nick Dokos |
Subject: |
Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export |
Date: |
Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:09:53 -0400 |
Matt Lundin <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Jambunathan,
>
> Jambunathan K <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Matt Lundin <address@hidden> 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
>
- [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export, Jambunathan K, 2011/04/01
- [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export, Achim Gratz, 2011/04/01
- [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export, Sébastien Vauban, 2011/04/04
- Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export, Nick Dokos, 2011/04/04
- Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export, Aankhen, 2011/04/04
- [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export, Sébastien Vauban, 2011/04/05
- Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export, Aankhen, 2011/04/05
- Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export, Eric S Fraga, 2011/04/05
- [O] New features for the exporters?, Sébastien Vauban, 2011/04/05
- Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export, Aankhen, 2011/04/05