Syntax highlighting
From ASCEND
If you would like to make use of syntax highlighting with ASCEND code, we have a number of options available:
gedit
gedit is the default text editor in GNOME (Linux). We have a syntax definition for gedit to support a4c/a4l files. This file, ascend.lang needs to be placed in /usr/share/gtksourceview-N.0/language-specs/ascend.lang. The exact location where you need to put the file may vary depending on your version of GNOME (check the version fo gtksourceview installed on your system). Note that unless you also follow the instructions in Desktop integration, you will still have to manually specify that you want to apply this syntax highlighting.
- See tools/gedit/ascend.lang (for older systems)
- See tools/gtksourceview-2.0/ascend.lang (for current systems)
TextPad
TextPad is a popular text editor on Windows
highlight
highlight is a syntax highlighting utility that can be used to produce HTML, LaTeX and other forms of highlighted output. It can also be integrated with the scientific wordprocessor LyX.
GNU Emacs
The GNU text editor
- see Using Emacs with ASCEND
- see also HelpfulTools
listings
Listings is a LaTeX package that performs syntax highlighting. See the latex preamble of our book.lyx file.
