![EMFText Logo](Core/Doc/org.emftext.doc/html/figures/EMFTextLogo.png)

EMFText is an Eclipse plug-in that allows you to define text syntax for languages described by an Ecore metamodel. EMFText enables developers to define textual Domain Specific Languages quickly and without the need to learn new technologies and concepts.

# User Guide

* [EMFText User Guide (HTML)](Core/Doc/org.emftext.doc/html/EMFTextGuide.html)
* [EMFText User Guide (PDF)](Core/Doc/org.emftext.doc/pdf/EMFTextGuide.pdf)

# Examples

[EMFText Syntax Zoo](https://github.com/DevBoost/EMFText-Zoo)

# Download/Installation

You can install EMFText using the following Eclipse Update Sites:

* [http://update.emftext.org/release](http://update.emftext.org/release) (current release)
* [http://update.emftext.org/trunk](http://update.emftext.org/trunk) (latest build from master)

# Sources on GitHub

[https://github.com/DevBoost/EMFText](https://github.com/DevBoost/EMFText)

# Publication

Florian Heidenreich, Jendrik Johannes, Sven Karol, Mirko Seifert, and Christian Wende.<br/>
**Derivation and Refinement of Textual Syntax for Models**<br/>
*In Proc. of 5th European Conference on Model-Driven Architecture Foundations and Applications (ECMDA-FA’09)*, volume 5562 of LNCS. Springer, 2009.
[[Authors' version (PDF)](Core/Doc/org.emftext.doc/publication/2009_ECMDA_EMFText.pdf)]
[[Original publication at SpringerLink](http://www.springerlink.com/content/w6r72r6631761206/)]