Please Review My Metalanguage

• kbnf

  6 0 0.0

  KBNF has been renamed to Dogma

Hi all!

While developing a text and binary data format (https://concise-encoding.org/), I ran into trouble building a formal description for them. Many formats use EBNF or ABNF, or just embed their own BNF-style metalanguage in the spec itself (I started taking cues from the XML spec).

But describing a binary format is deceptively complex, and eventually I had to split out the metalanguage. KBNF is the result.

I want it to be useful for other people, so I've decided to release it standalone here: https://github.com/kstenerud/kbnf/blob/master/kbnf_v1.md

I'd really appreciate some proofreading, as right now the only way I'm able to effectively find issues is to let it sit for a couple of weeks so that I can look at it from a fresh viewpoint, and even then I'm not confident that I'm discovering as much as multiple eyes could.

Cheers!

• Kaitai Struct

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Have you seen this? https://kaitai.io/

(Disclaimer: I've never needed or used it, but stumbled upon it a while back and just filed it away for future reference)

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• ReadingQuarkXpress

  1 0 10.0 C++

  Some code to read certain Quark Xpress files

I have made the code available on GitHub, The code was developed on Windows and makes use of some Windows specific functions. But I think that dependency can be removed.

https://github.com/FransFaase/ReadingQuarkXpress

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