Forlan Project

The Forlan Project consists of

• a toolset (called Forlan) for experimenting with formal languages,

• JForlan, a Java graphical editor for Forlan automata and trees, and

• a draft textbook entitled "Formal Language Theory: Integrating Experimentation and Proof",

all released under free software/documentation licenses.

The subdirectory:

• html contains the source for the Forlan website;

• toolset contains the Standard ML source for the toolset, plus the ML-Doc source for the toolset's manual;

• jforlan contains the distribution of JForlan;

• book contains the LaTeX source for the book.

The file version.txt contains the current version of the Forlan Project. It is read by various scripts.

The file html-directory.txt contains the pathname of the Forlan HTML directory. It is read by various scripts.

The script build-and-install-tarball builds a compressed tarball of the Forlan distribution, and installs it in the HTML directory.

The script build-and-install runs build-and-install-tarball and builds and installs in the Forlan HTML directory:

• the general web pages (see html/install),

• the manual (see toolset/install-manual),

• the manual archives (see toolset/build-and-install-manual-archives),

• the minimum source archives, which are all the files needed to build the Forlan toolset (see toolset/build-and-install-min-src-archives),

• the JForlan web pages (see jforlan/build-and-install); requires that Apache Ant be installed and on the shell's PATH.