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Re: [Question] - Is it a good idea to parse groff with Bison?
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Chris verBurg |
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Re: [Question] - Is it a good idea to parse groff with Bison? |
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Thu, 5 Nov 2015 22:46:03 -0800 |
Whoa, this looks just like a question posted in Stackoverflow a few hours
ago! :)
A cursory googling gives me evidence that groff itself uses bison, which
would make jison a good match for parsing it, yes.
-Chris
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Roberto Jesus Dip <address@hidden>
wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> As part of a pet project, I'm trying to parse groff using Jison (
> essentially a clone of Bison, but in JavaScript ).
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> The idea behind this is to be able to parse groff to HTML in the browser,
> and make a live editor of man pages ( similar to http://dillinger.io/ ).
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> Do you believe that its a good idea to use Bison for this?.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Roberto Dip
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