By the way: there exists a module which is capable of highlighting Java:
https://modules.contextgarden.net/cgi-bin/module.cgi/ruid=12720986/action=view/id=82

Cheers, Christoph

Henri Menke via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> schrieb am Do., 2. Dez.
2021, 19:45:

> 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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