Re: Semantics of Lilypond syntax highlighting

[Hans Aberg]

On 20 Jun 2011, at 19:00, Garrett Fitzgerald wrote:

> I usually use the emacs tool to write lilypond code, but I use Notepad++ for 
> the rest of my editing. I'm trying to do a lilypond UDL for the Zenburn 
> scheme I'm currently using (http://victorgavin.co.uk/zenburn/), but I'm 
> having trouble matching a couple of the items up. Working off the list from 
> lilypond-words.el, I've defined the first list (\mf, \lyrics, \time, etc.) as 
> "Keyword". However, how should I treat a-vibraslap and 
> Accidental_engraver-Volta-Engraver? And which list does strings go with? I 
> could just define them all as Keyword, but it seems to me there should be 
> some semantic difference. Maybe "Indentifier"?

LilyPond has lexer and parser file. You might look into them.

Hans


http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/technical-glossary#lexer
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/technical-glossary#parser