Generating Syntax Diagrams From EBNFWith AG

Date: 2007-11-08

Time: 11:45

Room: BBL room 471

Speaker: Reinier Vis

Title: Generating syntax diagrams from EBNF with AG

Abstract

Syntax diagrams improve the understandability of a grammar which are specified in EBNF productions. Drawing syntax diagrams by hand can be a tedious process. In this presentation, an EBNF to TikZ converter is shown, which is implemented using the UU attribute grammar system. The EBNF converter analyzes an EBNF grammars, and automatically generates TikZ syntax diagrams out of the grammar specifications, which can easily be included in LaTeX documents. Special seperators will be introduced to aid the converter, and to influence the directions or alignment in which the diagrams are drawn.

• EBNFCPresentation.pdf: Today's presentation

• paper.pdf: Colloquium Paper

• ebnfc.zip: Sources