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 > _______________________________________________________________________ > ____________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry > to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > _______________________________________________________________________ > ____________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
