Hi,
I've finished the draft of the lilypond.lang file and I have some
questions before asking for comments on my file in the lilypond-devel
mailing list.
1) ELEMENTS
First of all, there's any place in the doc where each element is
explained? I mean: some elements are straightforward (comment, string,
function), while others (preproc, cbracket) are a bit obscure...at least
for a non-developer.
Also, I guess that names of these elements generally work fine with all
the programming languages. But other kind of languages may have
different peculiarities.
For examples, in the lilypond syntax - besides strings, comments,
operators and numbers - I have basically:
- music functions
- contexts
- layout objects
- context properties
- layout properties
Which elements should I use for each of them?
Function for music functions, that's easy.
What about all the rest?
So far I used different elements, even if not related to the meaning of
the group, just to see them styled differently.
But I guess that's not the right way.
Should I create new elements maybe?
2) SIMILAR ELEMENTS
Let's say I want to style differently two groups of numbers.
Which elements should I use?
For example, in the lilypond syntax numbers are used in two contexts:
# Fingering and string number
specialchar = '-[1-5]\b', '\\[0-9]\b'
# Note duration
number = '(1|2|4|8|16|32|64|128)(\.+|\b)'
specialchar is ok?
3) VARIABLES
In latex.lang I found:
vardef command = '\\[[:alpha:]]+'
keyword = $command
Why not writing just one line?
keyword = '\\[[:alpha:]]+'
What's the benefit of creating a variable?
Thanks,
Federico
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