Re: Ace editor - Lilypond support

[Erik Nilsson]

Thanks for the input! 

I'll have a look at the VIM files, although I'm not familiar with their format.

I've found that there is an automatic importer for Ace that can take a syntax described in a .tmLanguage file (Text Mate format).

There are such files for Lilypond here: https://github.com/yrammos/SubLilyPond

I haven't given it a try yet but the generated files might be a good enough start for getting Lilypond support in Ace.

//Erik

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Michael Hendry <address@hidden> wrote:

On 9 Mar 2015, at 13:34, Erik Nilsson <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

I'm considering creating a syntax highlighter for Lilypond code for the Ace
_javascript_ code editor (http://ace.c9.io/). I think it would be useful for
tools like for instance weblily (http://www.weblily.net/).

Is there a clear definition of the lilypond language that one could use as the
basis for such work? Does anybody know of other syntax highlighters out there
(Frescobaldi, Emacs, Sublime or whatever) that would be a good starting point
(being fairly complete, readable code).

Regards,

Erik

I’m not sure if this is what you’re looking for, Erik, but my installation of lilypond (on iMac) includes the following files:

/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/vim/compiler/lilypond.vim

/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/vim/ftdetect/lilypond.vim

/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/vim/ftplugin/lilypond.vim

/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/vim/indent/lilypond.vim

/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/vim/syntax/lilypond.vim

…which allow MacVim to provide syntax highlighting for lilypond.

I’m not sure now whether these came with lilypond, or whether I installed them separately.

Michael