Re: [O] Formal description of Org files

[Nick Dokos]

Bastien <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Marcelo,
> 
> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I'm creating a web app that interacts with orgmode files and allows
> > you to edit orgmode files on the browser. The edit part is not done.
> 
> Wow, this would be a really useful tool.  Can't wait to test this!
> 
> > I'm quite good at Javascript, and I wouldn't mind hacking something
> > akin to orgmode elisp code and this will be what I'll do if
> > everything else fails, but wouldn't using a grammar be a cleaner and
> > more elegant solution?
> 
> Can you tell more about what you mean by "grammar"?
> 

A formal grammar of some sort I presume: BNF or EBNF.

> Back in february, at FOSDEM, someone asked for a description of the
> org-mode format specification.  This is still something that needs to be
> done.  Any stab at this (on Worg) would be really nice.  You can start
> anywhere (headlines, TODO keywords, etc.)
> 
> If the "grammar" needs to be described in a specific format (more than
> just a formal description of the various syntactic elements of an Org
> file), let us know.
> 

There was a discussion about this on the list a few months ago, but I
can't get to search.gmane.org to find the thread atm, although I can get
to news.gmane.org: is that me or is gmane's search on the fritz?

Nick