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The raw HTML was invalid, and this way we use the common website template
for a uniform look without any duplication.
It seems gf-refman.html was once generated from txt2tags, although I have
been unable to find this original .t2t file.
I also tried to re-generate txt2tags from HTML but was not able to.
However I was able to convert HTML to Markdown using Pandoc and I think
the result is pretty good, so I think we should use this.
The original gf-refman.html can be obtained from git history, e.g.:
a7e43d872f/doc/gf-refman.html
Grammatical Framework (GF)
The Grammatical Framework is a grammar formalism based on type theory. It consists of:
- a special-purpose programming language
- a compiler of the language
- a generic grammar processor
The compiler reads GF grammars from user-provided files, and the generic grammar processor performs various tasks with the grammars:
- generation
- parsing
- translation
- type checking
- computation
- paraphrasing
- random generation
- syntax editing
GF particularly addresses four aspects of grammars:
- multilinguality (parallel grammars for different languages)
- semantics (semantic conditions of well-formedness, semantic properties of expressions)
- grammar engineering (modularity, abstractions, libraries)
- embeddability in programs written in other languages (C, C++, Haskell, Java, JavaScript)
Compilation and installation
The simplest way of installing GF is with the command:
cabal install
For more details, see the download page and developers manual.
About this repository
On 2018-07-25, the monolithic GF repository was split in two:
The former repository is now archived and no longer updated. The split was performed using this script and the output of that script is here.