Re: [Question] - Is it a good idea to parse groff with Bison?

2015-11-06 Thread Roberto Jesus Dip
Thanks Chris! I will do that :) On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Chris verBurg wrote: > > Hmm, you might want to check with the groff guys then. If they are or are > not really using bison, they'd be able to tell you why. My > technically-correct-but-less-than-helpful response is limited to "if

Re: [Question] - Is it a good idea to parse groff with Bison?

2015-11-06 Thread Chris verBurg
Hmm, you might want to check with the groff guys then. If they are or are not really using bison, they'd be able to tell you why. My technically-correct-but-less-than-helpful response is limited to "if groff's grammar is LALR(1), yes you can use bison!" Or to turn on GLR parsing and watch the wo

Re: [Question] - Is it a good idea to parse groff with Bison?

2015-11-06 Thread Roberto Jesus Dip
Hey Chris, Thanks so much for your answer. Indeed, the Stackoverflow question is mine :). Is a bad behavior to post in multiple forums / lists?. Regarding the topic, I have seen the groff source code, and although some pre-processors like `eqn` and `pic` are using bison, groff itself and 95% of