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

[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 the code is written in C++ ( please correct me if I'm wrong! ).

That's why I'm wondering if its really a good idea to use it.

Thanks again!

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:46 AM, Chris verBurg <address@hidden>
wrote:

>
> 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 ).
>>
>> 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/ ).
>>
>> Do you believe that its a good idea to use Bison for this?.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> --
>> Roberto Dip
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>


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