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[vincent douce <address@hidden>]

hi!
does anyone know if this can be installed on mac ?
Vincent

> Le 7 août 2021 à 13:42, Nicolas Ratier <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I propose a solution to include programs in TeXmacs with syntax 
> highlighting for about 100 languages. The programs can also contain Unicode 
> characters.
> 
> This solution uses the GNU source-highlight program :
> https://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/
> https://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/source-highlight.html
> 
> ---------------------------------------
> For users (Linux) :
> ---------------------------------------
> 
> install the GNU tools, uni2ascii and source-highlight
> copy the attached files into a directory
> ./src2tm.sh test01.ml
> which generates a file test01.tm
> In TeXmacs : Insert -> Link -> Include test01.tm
> 
> ---------------------------------------
> For developers
> ---------------------------------------
> 
> The output format for generating TeXmacs files is defined in the 
> "texmacs.outlang" file. I preferred to generate the TeXmacs TM format 
> because this format is very close to HTML and it was easier in this case 
> than generating the TeXmacs format in scheme or s-expression STM.
> 
> To be precise, the TM format is complicated because of the indentation of 
> the <xxx></xxx> tags, the limitation of the number of characters in width 
> and finally the particular treatment of the blank lines. So I generate a 
> simpler format, which is of course recognized without ambiguity by TeXmacs. 
> The normalization is done at the first save of the file.
> 
> Explanations for the src2tm.sh file:
> 
> 1/ The uni2ascii program allows to manipulate Unicode characters because 
> neither source-highlight, nor TeXmacs take into account UTF8 files. My 
> solution implies a limitation: the source file that we want to include must 
> not contain the pattern:
> "@@@_@@@[0-9A-F]+&&&_&&&"
> 
> 2/ The sed program makes it easy to handle line breaks in the generated 
> file, I just added a blank at the end of each line so that empty lines are 
> no longer empty! (anyway, you can always remove these blanks by a script 
> scheme inside TeXmacs)
> 
> Remarks:
> 
> 1/ If you want to view TeXmacs source code, you have to describe the 
> TeXmacs input format in a texmacs.lang file. This has to be done ... and in 
> your rush, why not also add julia.lang.
> 
> 2/ There is an API in C++ to call source-highlight, it's not necessarily a 
> good idea to use it, significant development time and source of additional 
> bugs for a minimal improvement. A script scheme to call uni2ascii, 
> source-highlight and include the generated file is enough (do one thing and 
> do it well ... UNIX).
> 
> Before asking to include the texmacs.outlang file in the source-highlight 
> distribution, I prefer to propose it to you before, to receive your critics 
> and improvements.
> 
> Have a nice vacation,
> Nicolas
> <source-highlight.tar.gz>