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Re: [AUCTeX] docTeX: font-locking of |\foobar|
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Tassilo Horn |
Subject: |
Re: [AUCTeX] docTeX: font-locking of |\foobar| |
Date: |
Fri, 08 May 2015 11:07:19 +0200 |
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jfbu <address@hidden> writes:
>> I had changed a bit font-lock stuff in order go a step towards LaTeX3
>> highlighting. Basically, macros used to be hard-coded as \\[a-zA-Z]+
>> and now they are recognized as a \\ followed by one or many symbol or
>> word characters. However, | had symbol syntax, thus the | in
>> \foobar| was treated as being part of the macro.
>
> Which syntax do you give to the colon : ?
>
> In LaTeX3 it is (afaik) often used in macro names, but in real life
> for end users it will be more often found like \this: <- was a
> typographical colon. This is less of an issue for the _.
That's the point. expl3 gives it symbol syntax but in normal tex/latex
it is punctuation.
Bye,
Tassilo