Re: [Help-source-highlight] conditional highlight (without losing other definitions)

[Lorenzo Bettini]

On 02/02/2012 06:09 PM, Federico Bruni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to find a smarter way to highlight some strings:
>
> All the "\strings" inside \markup{ ... } should have a different colour
> of \strings occurences in other parts of the input.
> How can I achieve that in a smart way (i.e. without using a list of all
> the \strings which can occur inside a \markup{} block)?
>
> I want to preserve all the other highlighting definitions. Maybe
> state|environment is not the right tool? Because in Doc 7.9 it says:
>
> "When entering a state/environment, however, the definitions given
> outside the state/environment are not matched. "
>
> Let's do an example:
>
> \markup {
> \override #'(box-padding . 1.0) \override #'(baseline-skip . 2.7) \box
> \center-column {
> \small \line { Sheet music from \with-url #"http://www.MutopiaProject.org";
> \line { \teeny www. \hspace #-0.5 MutopiaProject \hspace #-0.5 \teeny
> .org \hspace #0.5 }
> }
> }
> }
>
> I want to match only: \override \box \center-column \small \line
> \with-url \teeny \hspace
>
> The following environment:
>
> environment markup delim '\\markup\s*\{' "}" multiline nested begin
> environment markup delim "{" "}" multiline nested begin
> markup_command = '\\[[:alpha:]-]+'
> end
> end

Hi

what is that - '\\[[:alpha:]-]+' ?

if the strings starting with \ are fixed, you could simply list them

markup_command = "\override","\box" etc.

> can see the relevant block and highlight the \strings correctly, but at
> the same time it breaks something, in particular some elements lose
> their highlighting (as documentations says):
>
> 1) \markup
> 2) {}
> 3) #......

I didn't understand this, could you please elaborate it?

cheers
        Lorenzo

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