Re: [AUCTeX] docTeX: font-locking of |\foobar|

[Tassilo Horn]

jfbu <address@hidden> writes:

>> I had changed a bit font-lock stuff in order go a step towards LaTeX3
>> highlighting.  Basically, macros used to be hard-coded as \\[a-zA-Z]+
>> and now they are recognized as a \\ followed by one or many symbol or
>> word characters.  However, | had symbol syntax, thus the | in
>> \foobar| was treated as being part of the macro.
>
> Which syntax do you give to the colon : ?
>
> In LaTeX3 it is (afaik) often used in macro names, but in real life
> for end users it will be more often found like \this: <- was a
> typographical colon. This is less of an issue for the _.

That's the point.  expl3 gives it symbol syntax but in normal tex/latex
it is punctuation.

Bye,
Tassilo