Re: Syntax explanations

[Trevor Daniels]

Carl D. Sorensen wrote Wednesday, June 11, 2008 1:22 PM

<quote>
In the past, there has been a call for a full syntax diagram for LilyPond. 
Such a diagram should come directly from the parser, IMO.  Are there current 
plans for developing one?  At one time, I wrote a Python routine that 
generated a BNF syntax diagram from the parser. 
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel/7431/focus=7443>

Do we want to include it (or some better version, rolled by somebody with 
more development capability than me) in the documentation?  It seems to me 
that such a diagram would be helpful as a place to find out what one could 
type where.

</quote>

I don't think we'd want to include this in the manuals, but it could be 
useful to those of us who are familiar with formal descriptions.  Are you 
able to bring this up-to-date as a guide to the parser code?

Carl