On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Peter Danenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is this the appropriate place for GSoC conversations?
>
> If I understand the proposal correctly, there should be a lexer
> (written in R) that exposes an API; that API would be used by
> segregated mini-parsers (Roclets) which do the dirty work of Roxygen
> -> {html, LaTeX, DocBook, ...} translation.
>
> The lexer should ship with a proof-of-concept Roclet. Have I missed
> anything?
You should probably also survey existing attempts - I have written
something with ruby that suggest some ideas. I also have a number of
packages documented with that format which could be used for testing -
I'd be happy to reformat my existing documentation if it meant I would
no longer have to maintain my quick and dirty (and buggy!) parser.
Hadley
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