flex or lex gammar for HP/PCL and/or other Printer control languages

"Ken Davis" <davisken@mediaone.net>
18 Jan 2002 21:08:16 -0500

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From: "Ken Davis" <davisken@mediaone.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 18 Jan 2002 21:08:16 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
Keywords: parse, question, comment
Posted-Date: 18 Jan 2002 21:08:16 EST

I'm hunting down a "pre-built" grammar for PCL and / or other printer
control languages.


I'm also evaluating the appropriate scanner/compiler to do this in. Of
course, flex/bison is on the list. Also SandStone's Visual Parse++ and
maybe PCCTS.


The goal is to take an HP/PCL "grammar" and compile it into a different
language (or a cross compiling effort).


Does anybody have an experience on this topic or any advice (pro/con
regarding the tools I'm looking at) ?


--Ken
[Unless you want to parse the optional embedded pen plotter language,
the syntax of PCL is awfully simple, with the interesting part being
the semantics. You hardly need yacc. -John]


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