Hello, I just created and uploaded a syntax highlighting file for the ConTEXT editor.
www.context.cx http://www.context.cx http://www.context.cx Look in the "forum" section for the highlighting file I uploaded and some instructions at the top for setting up the Function keys to do compiles, views, midi, etc. After using jEdit for a while I found ConTEXT to be far, far, far superior on the Windows platform. ConTEXT editor is light and very fast, whereby jEdit would take 30 seconds or more to open large or many files (over 1 meg). (But Java apps generally do run slow on Windows.) Also the jEdit highlighter misses a lot of reserved words. I have included every LilyPond user-public reserved word I can find through version 2.8.5. Also it will highlight imbedded Scheme code separately making LP proper much easier to read and keep separated from Scheme. It also separates Context objects from Layout objects, hilights strings, comments, markup commands, properties, action words like \set and \override differently, etc. I came up with several thousand LP reserved words and categorized them all, I also tested this hilighter with all the LP regression and input files. The only minor highlighting glitch I found with ConTEXT is that string ending quotes cannot be on a line by themselves (they must end the string immediately, or if they are on their own line they must be preceeded with a space and not the carriage return) Other than that, this editor is pretty simple and pretty darn good at hilighting LP syntax. I've also had about 100 files open simultaneously with no performance problems in it. As new versions of LP arise I'll add reserved words as needed to the highlighting file. After installing ConTEXT, just download "LilyPond.chl" from the forum area and copy it to: "C:\Program Files\ConTEXT\Highlighters" Close and Re-Open ConTEXT. Now whenever you open up .LY files in ConTEXT they will be syntactically highlighted. Then read the blurb I wrote at the top of the LilyPond.chl file to show how to set up your F9 and F10 keys to compile and view your music in the ConTEXT command shell. Have fun Rick -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/A-new-freeware-LilyPond-editor-for-Windows-tf1993431.html#a5470863 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User forum at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
