RE: is there a human readable way to display syntax table?

[Drew Adams]

> when creating a syntax table while writing a new mode, i need to pick
> a syntax table to inherit. Is there a way to display the syntax table
> so that its human readible? I'm mostly interested in seeing which of
> the ascii chars's classes, in the standard-syntax-table, text-mode-
> syntaxt-table, or c-mode-syntax-table.
> 
> If i eval (standard-syntax-table) or see the values of text-mode-
> syntaxt-table, it returns a internal format of over 10 thousand
> cryptic elements.

`C-h s', which is `describe-syntax', shows the current syntax table in
human-readable form.