Re: pretty typesetting for matlab files

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

>
>
> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>  I was trying to define a pretty printing environment for matlab files.
>> The basic requirements that I have are
>>
>> The syntax is similar to both perl and MP. I had a look at the
>> verb-*.tex files and tried to write verb-matlab. My attempt is attached.
>
> If you have to change any of the actual syntax rules (like for comments
> etc.), then you have to be brave and create a fully new definition.

The syntax is quite similar to MP. I will see if I can make the 
corresponding changes for things to work.

> That may sound like a very daunting task, but it is not as hard as you
> may think, just something to be done meticulously. The verb-xxxx
> definitions are rather straightforward state engines that use character
> codes as command tokens.

Is this documented somewhere? Even the source files (verb-*.tex) did not 
have too many hints on what is going on. Should I also look into some 
other files?

Thanks,
Aditya