Re: [Help-source-highlight] Translation map for style names

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Dario Teixeira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have defined a simple outlang that produces S-expressions (see below).
> However, I would like to produce shorter versions of the style identifiers,
> so that "keyword" becomes "kwd", "symbol" becomes "sym", etc.  Is there any way
> for the $style variable itself to be transformed via a translation map?  Or an
> altogether different way of achieving this within the source-highlight library?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Best regards,
> Dario Teixeira
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> onestyle "($style \"$text\")"
>
> translations
> "\"" "\\\""
> end
> ----------------------------------------------

Hi Dario

actually I never felt the need for such feature.  I see two possible 
solutions to this:

- change the .lang files using kwd instead of keyword, but this would 
make your lang files unconsistent with future versions of the one 
distributed with source-highlight
- if you use source-highlight as a library in your own program/library, 
you could provide a specialized preprocessor to attach to the output 
produce, but this would require some knowledge of the library which you 
may want to avoid.

As a final solution, you could write some perl/shell script that 
automatically translate the .lang files into new version.

Note that, in any case, if a translation map for style names was 
provided you should still provide a map for every single element...

I'll try also to see how hard/easy would be to add such feature.... but 
I see your context as very ad-hoc, isn't it?

hope to hear from you soon
cheers
        Lorenzo

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