[clug] *BNF to diagrams: any suggested tools?

[Steve Jenkin]

James,

brilliant - I hadn’t thought to the obvious. Thanks so much for that.

I first saw “Railway diagrams" in the “Pascal User Manual and Report” by Jensen & Wirth, probably 1974. Not sure who invented Syntax Diagrams though.

Not surprising that Knuth’s TeX, invented to typeset his maths / computing papers, would also be extended to support this computing concept.

cheers
steve

> On 9 Sep 2021, at 23:04, James Ring <sjr at jdns.org> wrote:
> 
> Way back in my undergraduate days, I used the LaTeX rail package
> (https://www.ctan.org/pkg/rail) to generate railroad diagrams from BNF
> for a user guide for a language we had written.

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