On Jun 12, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Fabio Mancinelli wrote:
>
> On 12 juin 08, at 10:48, Vincent Massol wrote:
>
>> Hi Venkatesh,
>>
>> On Jun 12, 2008, at 10:40 AM, Venkatesh Nandakumar wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> 1. Syntax Highlighting, to a large extent, though there have been
>>> problems, as pointed out by Malaka, *bold~~combined~~bold* doesn't
>>> give
>>> the required effect, and secondly, the complex use of '*' in the
>>> wiki
>>> syntax makes it a bit difficult to differentiate between actual
>>> *bold*
>>> usage versus listing uses, maybe we would have to create own custom
>>> regex-based rules for it later. For other tags, its been simple and
>>> straightforward.
>>
>> Do you really need to parse it yourself? We have a parser in charge
>> of doing this so you don't have to care at all about these
>> problems. That's unless the system you use for syntax highlighting
>> uses regexs (in which case I think it should be changed).
>>
> This is something related to the Eclipse text-infrastructure which
> uses its own techniques for identifying text elements, and the way
> it does is a way that it is not the standard way. The basic
> framework provides some "rules" that are used for chopping the text
> into partitions that are assigned a given type.
>
> For example, XML comments can be processed by using:
> new MultiLineRule("<!--", "-->", "XML_COMMENT_PARTITION"); that
> basically associates everything between <!-- and --> to the type
> "XML_COMMENT_PARTITION".
>
> I think that in principle a "standard parser" output can be
> integrated into this framework, but this has to be investigated
> because it might not be so simple.
>
> As I said in a previous mail, Malaka might try to think about it as
> the next step of his project.
> For sure this would be nice because we would use a single
> "authoritative" parser.
yes, exactly. That's the point. Let's hope it's possible. It probably
is as otherwise it seems doing syntax highlighting for complex
syntaxes is probably pretty hard.
Thanks
-Vincent
> WDYT?
>
> Cheers,
> Fabio
>
>
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