Hi guys, I've really impressed with the power of ANTLR. I need your advice. I would like to develop typograph application. I've tried to do it with the help of regular expressions, but it's extremely hard to maintain it. I write crazy rregex and in few months I'can get how does it work:) Typical situation when work with complicated regex'es. I've seen named regex in Ruby (I use Ruby, Rais, Groovy, Java, JavaFX) but they don't bring so clear evidence like ANTLR does. Nice declarative ANTLR style should help a lot.
I am from Russia and I'm working with web texts in Russian. Please, see short description of the task. ANTLR based (Target lang -> Ruby) application accepts usual text typed in browser. Application should apply several characters transformation rules and emit well-typographed text. Example rules are: 1. "Something in quotes" -> «Something in quotes » 2. "Some text goes nere "Oh, my something in quotes again!" " -> «Some text goes here „Oh my something in quotes again!“ » 3. (r) -> *®*, 4. (c) -> *©*, 5. (tm) -> ™ 6. someWord-someOtherWord -> someWord – someOtherWord Special rule for first quote 7. "some text goes here... -> <span style="margin-right:0.44em;"> «</span>some text goes here... and many other rules. The first I would like to do it for Russian lang, nex will be English. What do you think, is ANTLR nice for such task, is it convenient to solve such task using ANTLR? Thank you for your attention, waiting for your considerations. List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "il-antlr-interest" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/il-antlr-interest?hl=en.
