Re: Installing diction on a Mac [was: Re: Is the Gnu diction Package is bison and flex Candidate=]

2007-08-03 Thread Hans Aberg
Another package that miscompiles the same way under Mac OS X 10.4.10 is GNU-Cim http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cim/cim-3.30.tar.gz Also, the page http://www.gnu.org/software/cim/ does not point to http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cim/ Hans Aberg On 3 Aug 2007, at 16:12, Alfonso Urdaneta wrote: Hans A

Re: Is the Gnu diction Package is bison and flex Candidate=

2007-08-03 Thread Hans Aberg
On 3 Aug 2007, at 12:51, Hans (Req man) skrev: Hans Aberg schreef: Don't expect to get much out of error recovery. It is a research topic, and particularly bad under LALR(1), as the parser states are merged in a way that when an error token appears. some reductions may still take place.

Re: Installing diction on a Mac [was: Re: Is the Gnu diction Package is bison and flex Candidate=]

2007-08-03 Thread Hans Aberg
On 3 Aug 2007, at 12:01, Michael Haardt wrote: It compiles now, though I got the following warning from ./configure: config.status: WARNING: Makefile.in seems to ignore the -- datarootdir setting I got that too, it must be some new autoconf feature I hadn't time to read about this morning.

Re: Is the Gnu diction Package is bison and flex Candidate=

2007-08-03 Thread Hans Aberg
On 3 Aug 2007, at 08:01, Hans (Req man) wrote: In order to come to an achievable goal I considered this to difficult to start with. So I took two examples from the current English diction phrase checks. My first level of ambition is to check a sentence for the existence of a certain phrase.

Re: Is the Gnu diction Package is bison and flex Candidate=

2007-08-02 Thread Hans (Req man)
Hans Aberg schreef: example 1: be able to = IdentifierBeginnerInstancesAdvised user action --- --- to be able to Yes be able to (weak definition) From the descripti

Re: Is the Gnu diction Package is bison and flex Candidate=

2007-08-02 Thread Hans Aberg
On 3 Aug 2007, at 00:13, Alfonso Urdaneta wrote: Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. The version I'm familiar with is "Time flies like the wind, fruit flies like bananas". A quick netsearch gives that both version are attributed to Groucho Marx, with no reference. As

Re: Is the Gnu diction Package is bison and flex Candidate=

2007-08-02 Thread Alfonso Urdaneta
Hans Aberg wrote: Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. The version I'm familiar with is "Time flies like the wind, fruit flies like bananas". -- alfonso e. urdaneta _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ This e-mail and any files tran

Re: Is the Gnu diction Package is bison and flex Candidate=

2007-08-02 Thread Hans Aberg
On 2 Aug 2007, at 21:33, Hans (Req man) wrote: This spelling out all possibilities brought to my mind the usage of flex and bison in one of my projects in the early nineties: Generalization example 1: 1. 'able to' /* I am able to ... */ 2. 'able to/*

Is the Gnu diction Package is bison and flex Candidate=

2007-08-02 Thread Hans (Req man)
Hi! Currently I am a user of the Gnu diction program. I am translating diction and style. Release 1.11 RC3 provides Dutch messages and can check the diction and style of Dutch documents. From the Gnu website http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/diction.html: "diction - Checks text for readability an