From 73c4fe8ddae261c02220d7b8205761210b61c3a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: aarne Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 12:23:48 +0000 Subject: Beta release. --- doc/gf2-highlights.html | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/gf2-highlights.html b/doc/gf2-highlights.html index bb950fb84..c61afade5 100644 --- a/doc/gf2-highlights.html +++ b/doc/gf2-highlights.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Highlights, preliminary version

-13/10/2003 - 25/11 - 24/3/2004 +13/10/2003 - 25/11 - 2/4/2004

@@ -56,11 +56,14 @@ An accurate language specification is now available.

  • Pattern variables can be used on lhs's of oper definitions.
  • New Unicode transliterations (by Harad Hammarström). -

    New parser (forthcoming)

    +

    New shell commands

    + +
  • pi = print_info: information on an identifier in scope. +
  • h = help now in long or short form, + and on individual commands. +
  • All commands have both long and short names (see help). Long names + are a handy way to make scripts more readable. -
  • By Peter Ljunglöf, based on MCFG -
  • Much more efficient for morphology and discontinuous constituents -
  • Treatment of cyclic rules

    New editor features

    @@ -75,6 +78,13 @@ An accurate language specification is now available.
  • Lexican rules sorted out by option -cflexer for efficient parsing with large lexica. +

    New parser (forthcoming)

    + +
  • By Peter Ljunglöf, based on MCFG +
  • Much more efficient for morphology and discontinuous constituents +
  • Treatment of cyclic rules + + @@ -119,17 +129,39 @@ There is some room for improvement. Soundness checking of module depencencies and completeness is not complete. This means that some errors may show up too late. +

    + +Latex and XML printing of grammars do not work yet.

    How to use GF 1.* files

    -The import command i is given the option -old. E.g. +Backward compatibility with respect to old GF grammars has been +a central goal. All GF grammars, from version 0.9, should work in +the old way in GF2. The main exception is the package system +introduced in GF 1.2, which would interfere too much with the new +module system. + +

    + +Very old GF grammars (from versions before 0.9), with the completely +different notation, do not work. They should be first converted to +GF1 by using GF version 1.2. + +

    + +The import command i can be given the option -old. E.g. 

       i -old tut1.Eng.g2
    -This generates, internally, three modules: +But this is no more necessary: GF2 detects automatically if a grammar +is in the GF1 format. + +

    + +Importing a set of GF2 files generates, internally, three modules: 

       abstract tut1 = ...
   resource ResEng = ...
@@ -137,6 +169,7 @@ This generates, internally, three modules:
    (The names are different if the file name has fewer parts.) +

    The option -o causes GF2 to write these modules into files. @@ -179,6 +212,11 @@ with a variant where the last letter is replaced by Z, e.g. instance is replaced by instancZ. This method is of course unsafe and should be replaced by something better. +

    + +The package format of GF 1.2 is made obsolete +by the module system. It is not handled properly by GF2. + @@ -322,6 +360,18 @@ taken into account. Thus a module need not be read from a file if the module is in the memory and the file has not been modified. +

    + +To force compilation: +

    + -- cgit v1.2.3