Kate syntax xml for Pandoc

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I'm working on a blog series covering my experiences with Teal and Cyan.

To keep it simple I'm using these tools:

• ReStructured Text files (.rst)
• Pandoc
• Bash script to drive static web generation

To enable syntax-colored code blocks I needed to create tools that Pandoc recognizes:

• Kate style xml syntax parsing
• Pandoc style "theme" for syntax coloring

MY GOAL was an extremely sparse markup. You will see that the only coloring is:

• Declaration of variables.
• Declaration of fields/methods.
• Basic strings (as opposed to long string format, which is not handled)
• Comments

So, attached are:

1. teal.xml
2. mysparselight.theme
3. mysparsedark.theme
4. example light screenshot
5. example dark screenshot

FUN TO NOTE: 'record' and 'enum' are valid identifiers in Teal. Most (all?) of the editors I looked at that can handle Teal syntax coloring CAN NOT handle 'record' or 'enum' as identifiers. And they kind of lose their minds for a little bit, before recovering.

My parser can handle these. See lines 11 and 14, below, for example.

xml_and_themes.zip

[bjornbm]

Don't forget to let us know when you publish you blog series!

[JLPLabs]

You can find the first two entries at: www.jlplabs.com