[Foundation-l] New parser in the works - please help

[GerardM]

Hoi,
When you say that the needs of the Neaplotian language will be not honoured.
What is the point of asking ?
Thanks,
     GerardM

On Nov 17, 2007 4:32 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17/11/2007, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:
> > David Gerard wrote:
> > > On 17/11/2007, Jon Harald Søby wrote:
>
> > >> Err, WikiCreole <http://wikicreole.org/>? It's already been done. But
> > >> according to Chunk and Christopher, the MediaWiki developers were not
> > >> willing to adapt MediaWiki to WikiCreole....
>
> > > No, that's a different wikitext grammar altogether. This is about
> > > implementing a proper grammar that does MediaWiki wikitext. Something
> > > we could swap in and the users would almost not notice. Hence the
> > > request for odd-but-important bits that would look like quirks to
> > > those who don't know the language that needs them.
>
> > And WikiCreole is not easier to convert into a grammar than mediawiki's.
>
>
> Yeah. This is about MediaWiki text, not WikiCreole.
>
> Although if we can modularise the wikitext processing sufficiently
> (and making it independent of the code will help that), then attaching
> new grammar-processing modules will be much more feasible. But this is
> getting off-topic for this list :-)
>
> Anyway. What features of the present parser does your language rely on
> that English doesn't? Please let us know!
>
>
> - d.
>
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