Re: Syntax highlighting for English as a natural language

["R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar" <chyavana-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 08/12/2020 20:08, Daniel Staal wrote:
> On 12/8/20 7:59 AM, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote:
>>
>> Coming back to my question, my set of sentences to code in colour, 
>> depending on its part of speech, is small and I can do it by hand. But 
>> I need to do it in a fashion that allows the same pandoc-markdown 
>> source file to produce PDF and HTML.
>>
>> For example, the sentence "I use Pandoc" might show up as:
>>
>> I (in blue colour for pronouns)
>> use (in green colour for verbs)
>> Pandoc (in red colour for nouns)
>>
>> How would I do this in pandoc-markdown (perhaps in a verbatim-like 
>> environment) to get the same results for HTML and PDF?
> 
> If you are willing to do all the work manually, and only need it in HTML 
> and PDF: Use spans and CSS, and use HTML as the intermediary to PDF 
> instead of LaTex.   Either native HTML spans, or bracketed spans.
> 
> Daniel T. Staal
> 

That is what I ended up doing and it is quite satisfactory.

Thanks also for mentioning HTML to PDF: That is an option that did not 
occur to me as I was fixated on LaTeX.

Chandra

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