Re: DOCBOOK: Proposal for BNF/EBNF markup

[Dave Makower <davemak@iclick.com>]

At 10:25 AM -0500 3/22/00, Eve L. Maler wrote:
>>lhs     --> prodleftside
>>rhs     --> prodtranslation
>>             (or maybe translation, translations, or translationlist)
>
>These are traditionally called lhs and rhs in all kinds of computer 
>science contexts, so I'm reluctant to expand them.  If we do, it 
>should be lefthandside and righthandside.

Are <leftside> and <rightside> acceptable alternatives?

At 10:25 AM -0500 3/22/00, Eve L. Maler wrote:
>Yikes...  I fear that this will tip the design over to doing actual 
>modeling, which I've tried to do in the past and which rarely 
>satisfies everybody.

At 10:25 AM -0500 3/22/00, Norman Walsh wrote:
>Hmmm. Fairly high markup/text ratio.

Point taken.  I agree.

>Are there requirements here for being able to switch representations 
>of the same BNF?

Not really.  I was just trying to stay out of the formatting business 
when thinking in content mode.  Perhaps I was getting overzealous; 
I'm a little new to this structured documentation thing, and trying 
to follow principles.

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