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| author | aarne <unknown> | 2003-11-25 15:43:05 +0000 |
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| committer | aarne <unknown> | 2003-11-25 15:43:05 +0000 |
| commit | ba077a8a91e5f809a66f79ff13da602a7eb88437 (patch) | |
| tree | 82f5368fcca55d61f885ef5f74f5a6576ce46ee0 /doc | |
| parent | 1574e20786d2aa6eceb95ccfae54e7a0fc77785b (diff) | |
Preparing for beta release.
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diff --git a/doc/gf2-highlights.html b/doc/gf2-highlights.html index 036ca55f3..d011a2875 100644 --- a/doc/gf2-highlights.html +++ b/doc/gf2-highlights.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Highlights, preliminary version <p> -13/10/2003 +13/10/2003 - 25/11 <p> @@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ Highlights, preliminary version </center> + +<h2>Syntax of GF</h2> + +An accurate <a href="DocGF.ps.gz">language specification</a> is now available. + + <h2>Summary of novelties</h2> <h4>Module system</h4> @@ -69,36 +75,42 @@ Highlights, preliminary version <!-- NEW --> -<h2>Status (14/11/2003)</h2> +<h2>Status (25/11/2003)</h2> Grammar compiler, editor GUIs, and shell work. <p> GF1 grammars can be automatically translated to GF2 (although result not as good -as manual). The results can be saved in GF2 files, but this is not necessary. +as manual, since indentation and comments are destroyed). The results can be +saved in GF2 files, but this is not necessary. <p> Example grammars and resource libraries are in the process of -be converted. At the same time, their API has grown with -new constructions. -English and German resources are up-to-date. -Finnish and Swedish are also, but their derived libraries -have not been adapted to the use of security-bringing lock fields. - +being converted. There will be a new API with +many new constructions. The new versions lie in <tt>grammars/newresource</tt>. +English and Swedish resources are up-to-date. +In the old API version, <tt>grammars/resource</tt>, the other languages +are up-to-date. <p> A make facility works, finding out which modules have to be recompiled. There is some room for improvement. +<br> +<b>Bug</b>. +Sometimes the grammar compiler gets confused if there are many +grammars open simultaneously. Then the advice is to empty +the environment (using <tt>e</tt>) and compile grammar one by one. +When read from <tt>gfc</tt> versions, there should be no problems +to have several grammars simultaneously. <p> The module type <tt>grammar</tt> (to build multilingual grammars) not yet implemented. - -<il> <tt>transfer</tt> modules have to be called by flags +<tt>transfer</tt> modules have to be called by flags <p> @@ -153,6 +165,13 @@ line, e.g. % gf2 -old -abs=Tutorial tut1.Eng.gf tut1.Fin.gf tut1.Fra.gf </pre> +<p> + +GF2 has more reserved words than GF 1.2. When old files are read, a preprocessor +replaces every identifier that has the shape of a new reserved word +with a variant where the last letter is replaced by <tt>Z</tt>, e.g. +<tt>instance</tt> is replaced by <tt>instancZ</tt>. This method is of course +unsafe and should be replaced by something better. diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..06b52930a --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +<html> + +<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> + +<center> + +<h1>Grammatical Framework Version 2 beta</h1> + +<p> + +25/11/2003 + +<p> + +<a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne">Aarne Ranta</a> + +<p> + +Beta version of GF2 now available: + +<p> + +<a href="gf2-highlights.html">Highlights</a> + +<p> + +<a href="gf2-beta-src.tgz">Sources</a> + +<p> + +<a href="gf2-beta-grammars.tgz">Example grammars</a> + +<p> + +<a href="gf2-beta-linux.gz">Linux binary</a> (with fudgets) + +<p> + +<a href="gf2-beta-sun.gz">Sun binary</a> (without fudgets; +use Java GUI from src/java) + +<p> + + +<a href="DocGF.ps.gz">Language specification</a> is now available. + +<p> + +See <a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/GF/">GF Homepage</a> for +more information on GF. + + + +</body> +</html> |