Re: Syntax highlighting using LMTX

[Henri Menke via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>]

On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 12:07 -0500, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context
wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2021, Thangalin via ntg-context wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > There are a few technical hurdles with using the t-vim module in
> > LMTX.
> > First, users need to install the module using externally defined
> > shell
> > scripts. Second, it's awkward to communicate to users how to install
> > it,
> > especially for Windows users. Third, it likely requires installing
> > vim, as
> > a separate step. Fourth, making general-purpose XML setups that
> > optionally
> > rely on syntax highlighting when it is an optional install is a
> > little
> > laborious.
> > 
> > If installing a module was as easy as "install.sh --module=t-vim"
> > then that
> > would leap over most hurdles. 
> 
> You can always install manually as follows:
> 
> cd $TEXMFHOME
> wget
> https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/context/contrib/context-{filter,vim}.zip
> unzip context-{filter,vim}.zip
> 
> > Although there'd still be a dependency on installing vim. 
> 
> Yes, that's a trade-off that the vim module makes. But, last time I
> used Windows (some 10 years ago), installing vim was relatively easy.
> Download the install from vim's website, and click next a couple of
> times. 
> 
> > How would you go about creating a syntax highlighter for Java that
> > can work
> > with LMTX? 
> 
> I'll let others answer that. Had I known that, I wouldn't have written
> a module to do syntax highlighting :-) In the end, it also depends on
> how refined a syntax highlighter you want. Writing a simple keyword
> based highlighter is relatively easy. See, for example, scite-context-
> lexer-cpp.lua in the distribution, which is based on the CPP lexer in
> scite.

I wrote an answer here some time ago.
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/333508/custom-pretty-printer-in-context

Cheers, Henri

> 
> Aditya
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