alternative setting of comments

alternative setting of comments

[Adam Lindsay]

I was wondering if anyone who works with the verbatim environments has
tried to set comments in a different style. It would be ideal to be able
to set comments in \tf text font or some variant. I'm not really
interested in colors at the moment.

The immediate need is for working with a Pascal-like language, but I've
been a bit baffled as to how to grab and process XML comments also
(though I haven't look at that recently).

Thanks in advance for any hints,
adam


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Re: alternative setting of comments

[Hans Hagen]

At 09:35 AM 3/21/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>I was wondering if anyone who works with the verbatim environments has
>tried to set comments in a different style. It would be ideal to be able
>to set comments in \tf text font or some variant. I'm not really
>interested in colors at the moment.
>
>The immediate need is for working with a Pascal-like language, but I've
>been a bit baffled as to how to grab and process XML comments also
>(though I haven't look at that recently).

\starttext

\setuptyping[option=TEX]

\starttyping
test test %%\ N {\sl test}
\stoptyping

\stoptext

So, %%\ triggers some kind of mode (see verb-ini.tex for details and examples)

Another way is:

\setuptyping[option=slanted]

\starttyping
test test <<test>> test
\stoptyping

There is yet another way but i just found out that it has a problem (seems 
that i never use it)

Hans
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Re: alternative setting of comments

[Adam Lindsay]

Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:56:35 +0100:

>At 09:35 AM 3/21/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>>I was wondering if anyone who works with the verbatim environments has
>>tried to set comments in a different style. It would be ideal to be able
>>to set comments in \tf text font or some variant. I'm not really
>>interested in colors at the moment.
>
>\starttext
>
>\setuptyping[option=TEX]
>
>\starttyping
>test test %%\ N {\sl test}
>\stoptyping
>
>\stoptext
>
>So, %%\ triggers some kind of mode (see verb-ini.tex for details and
examples)

Thanks, Hans,

I was starting to look at that, and I thought that the mode that it
triggered meant that all I had to do was \naturaltextexttrue (but I still
don't understand your \newif mechanism really.) That turned out to be wrong.

All I needed to do the initial bit of what I wanted was to do this:
\setuptyping[text=yes,ccommand=\rm]

...which was a lot simpler than I expected from the manual ["icommand
(for identifiers),
vcommand (for variables) and ccommand parameters (for the rest)."] 

I *think* I've learned enough from core-ver, verb-ini, verb-pl, and verb-
js that I think I can fake my own mode. The above may well be enough.

>Another way is:
>
>\setuptyping[option=slanted]
>
>\starttyping
>test test <<test>> test
>\stoptyping

I looked at that earlier, and my problem was getting it to trigger in
included \typefile's.

Thanks,
adam



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