used the google gemini assistant to translate the rust or dart
translator into other languages (perl, zig). This saves a lot
of typing even if I need to correct the program. But the
result seems remarkably good.
cgi-script link on nomlang.org pages to allow basic editing/comments
link on icon images to show image information
27 april 2025
Format /tr/ translation scripts into html and make links to them.
in /eg/maths.parse.pss and /eg/maths.tolatex.pss change the exponent
operator (^) to be right associative (because I forgot this basic
rule of school mathematics).
write “/eg/maths.tollvm.pss” to convert a mathematical expression
to llvm intermediate representation. This is mainly as an exercise
and to learn a bit about llvm.
done
finished lua translator (need to do “stdin.stream” and
“stdin.file” input types for very big files? )
added upper case headings to text.tohtml.pss (but not with
trailing .... four dots.)
in /object/machine.methods.c change escape() and unescape()
so that they do not reescape chars that are already
escaped eg \\\\ should remain as is. Use the code from
/eg/nom.todart.pss escapeChar to implement.
show a solution to “dangling else” problem with nom
show solution to recognising { a^n b^n c^n : n>0 } with ℙ𝕖𝕡 🙵 ℕ𝕠𝕞
write a script that turns grammar descriptions as above with
braces into html or latex. See wikipedia for the format.
23 mar 2025
make a help system for the /eg/text.tohtml.pss script which
would explain the formats available for writing documents.
empty list item at end of doc may eat the whole document!
done
finished (more or less) the dart translator.
19 mar 2025
wrap long lines in /eg/nom.tolatex.pss
nicely so that I can make books in A4 with a bigger font.
make a vim macro command or abbreviation that adds translation
instructions for a given language. Or put the macro in
/eg/text.tohtml.pss .
make some format “attributes” for lists in html, for example to
suppress the bullet points or make the list ordered etc.
17 mar 2025
More things to do
change sum() function in maths.tolatex.pss to take 3 arguments
not two eg sum(0, :infinity, expression).
Or just make the sum function an operator, so that I can
combine it with other expressions.
add stackmash as symlink in nom blog.
things done
Added a script* grammar token to the scripts at (eof) which means
that a valid script/program has been successfully parsed. eg
in nom.syn.ref.pss The new translator scripts have this grammar.
Consolidate grammar token error checking into one section just after the
parse> label in the translation scripts. I have done this
for /tr/nom.todart.pss and will use as template for other translators.
adapted /eg/nom.tohtml.pss to output
LATEX this is pretty simple
since it is not a parsing script.
fixed mark/go bug in the translator scripts.
Essentially if a new mark is created which has the same name as
an existing mark then the existing mark should be deleted.
make nom.tolatex.pss to produce latex output for printing.
made a translation macro in
the
HTML formatter which will list languages that have good
nom translators and links to the translator scripts.
remove parsing code from nom.tohtml.pss and just make the
script colourise and print. This is better because don’t have
to reformat statements.
make files automatically link in documents when they start with
/ such as /tr/translate.perl.pss . Directories work too such
as the /tr/ folder.
done: added unordered lists. See /eg/text.tohtml.format.html
for the details of the format. Basically list items start the
line with - and end with a blank line or the end of the
document.
done: check centre aligning images in eg/text.tohtml.pss
done: in blog.sh generate latex maths formula images and save in image/maths
done: put the abbreviation code which is in nom.tohtml.pss into
done: add help to eg/nom.syntax.reference.pssnom.syn.ref.pss
done: make a template script with errors and help and parse stack watch.
done: add equationset* token to eg/maths.tolatex.pss so
that I can print lists
of formulas and maths problems.
done: rewrite maths.tolatex.pss using new grammar in maths.parse.pss
(not much to rewrite)
done: Improve unbalanced bracket error checking (in nom.syn.ref.pss
wrote a pretty printer for nom source code. eg look at colours
in chromium view source, i.e nom.tohtml.pss and nom.tolatex.pss
Added the “go;” syntax, go to the mark indicated in the tape cell
13 mar 2025
Things to do on the
ℙ𝕖𝕡 and
ℕ𝕠𝕞 system.
make script nom.syntax.recognise.pss based on script above
which just says “yes: nom syntax ok” or “no: etc” This script would
become the basis of an non-error checking nom parser.
add help system to eg/drawbasic.pss
generate headers in eg/ to html with text.tohtml.pss
make a new script text.tolatex.pss for printing a book
revise the docs at nomlang.org/doc to generate printed material
the python translation script in the /tr/ translation folder.
the python script seems to have a bug when running /eg/text.tohtml.pss
Include the document folder in the download.tar.gz
Make sure ℙ𝕖𝕡 🙵 ℕ𝕠𝕞 can be downloaded with git and compiled with “make
”
write a table of contents parser
Change write; to writefile “name"; and writefile; (write to file” named in tapecell). Also make “readfile” with the same syntax.
But “compile.pss” used write to sav.pp as a special process.
Find the bug with pickwick papers (strange character hanging?)
compiler and translator error messages
token sequences
missing command like replace
quoted quoted ;
quoted ;
trailing comma or dot
quoted , quoted , {
quoted . {
message:
Truly, I would love just ignore that trailing comma at line x char y
but I just cant, pedantry doesnt let me
retro html formatted by nom
comments/suggestions to: mjb at nomlang dot org
