Generic Pretty Printer

Introduction

The GPP package is a tool suite for generic pretty-printing. GPP supports pretty-printing of parse-trees in the AsFix format with comment preservation and of abstract syntax trees. GPP supports the output formats plain text, LaTeX^?, and HTML. Formattings are defined in pretty print tables, which can be generated from SDF syntax definitions.

Tools

• abox2html
• abox2latex
• abox2text^?

• asfix2abox
• ast2abox^?

• ppgen^?
• pptable-diff

Languages

GPP is based on Box, a language independent markup language to describe the intended layout of text.

• Box language
• Pretty Print Table

Documentation

• How to pretty print a grammar
• How to use GPP with LaTeX
• Pretty print tables
• Stratego.StrategoBox

Links

The official homepage of GPP:

• http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ST/Merijn/GenericPrettyPrinter