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Thanks for the input, Dave. When I do this, I will leave files from all.zip untouched so all comments and attributions will automatically stay in tact. I will plan to only add additional files or scripts to the repo to support package managers and the like, and also some sort of readme to explain th...

I would like to make a mirror of the contents of http://www.conwaylife.com/patterns/all.zip available through a github repo. I would set up a nightly or weekly Travis CI job to pull down and sync the latest. This would allow developers an easy path to include a great pattern library in apps. Of cour...

Thank you for the notes MikeP and rowett!

Thanks again, Dave. You've given me a lot to chew on. I'll try playing around with the offset parameters and some of the layering methods you've mentioned. If I ever end up working on a grammar for Extended RLE I'll try to include any of this that makes sense. I'll update the end-matter section so t...

hkoenig - thanks a lot for the input, its very helpful. The "h" and "v" values seem very useful. I'll follow your advice on the whitespace. The loose and strict modes are a good idea. I'll definitely stick with writing for the loose mode at first for my parser. The RLE wiki page had this: RLE reader...

Thanks again for the help. I've made the following updates: * Allow for rules that are not semi-totalistic format or are nicknames * Add note on 70 character limit for generators vs. parsers * Made header-line optional * Allow for "#C" hash-line comments after ! * Fixed run-count to not allow number...

Thank you both very much for the input! wildmyron: thanks for pointing out the existence of non- semi-totalistic rules and also the nicknames. I can look into those more and update the grammar. For my parser, I don't actually plan on using the grammar past as a reference for the code implementation,...

Hi all, In case this is useful to anyone... I'm about to write an RLE parser and I wrote up this grammar based on the page from LifeWiki: Run Length Encoded (RLE) File Format Grammar ============================================ See http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Run_Length_Encoded For description of...