Re: ANN: Pygments support for LilyPond

[Jean Abou Samra]

Hi Werner,

Le 22/11/2021 à 17:00, Werner LEMBERG a écrit :
> Thanks.  Please apply the attached patch to `texinfo.tex` to make
> `@setcolor` work in `@example` environments; it is necessary to
> temporarily make a space character behave normally.
>
> If my solution is sufficient I will submit it to texinfo upstream.


It looks like the patch works with pdftex (and
luatex), but not with xetex. Any thoughts about
that?


> Note that the actual command to be used by 'pygments' shouldn't be
> `@setcolor` but rather a texinfo macro, say, `@color`:
>
> ```
>    @color{<color>}{<colored text>}
> ```
>
> This macro would be a no-op for the info format, and both the TeX and
> HTML implementations would put the `@setcolor` command into a 'group'
> so that a previous colour would be restored after calling `@color`.


Why not. Note, however, that the HTML will be generated
by Pygments' built-in formatter directly (it uses CSS
classes on <span> elements, without outputting the colors
in the HTML).

Jean