bug#39663: 27.1; ebnf2ps bugs

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:

> Thank you! Doesn't seem to work with ABNF though (set `ebnf-syntax` to
> `abnf`, and remove the full stop).

I tried

naïve = façade

(setq ebnf-syntax 'abnf)
(ebnf-print-buffer "/tmp/out.ps")

and it seemed to work?

(Is it apparent that I've never even heard of this package before?  :-))

> Although it could still be useful, the ebnf2ps package does show its
> age in many respects: non-Unicode, output in EPS rather than PDF or
> SVG, no interactive preview, etc. It's also misplaced (in 'progmodes'
> despite not being a programming mode) and, in effect, abandoned. Does
> it really belong in Emacs core?
>
> (And does anyone use railway diagrams these days?)

Yeah, it does seem a bit long in the tooth...

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