Re: [Kile-devel] Syntax Highlighting of footnote command

[Thomas B. <br...@ph...>]

[resending because of stupid sf blocking zip attachments]

On Thursday 05 July 2007 19:07, Jan Nikolas Dicke wrote:
> Hello,

Hello Jan,

> I'm using Kile 1.9.3 and would like to add syntax hightlighting to the
> LaTeX footnote command. What I really want is that the text between the
> braces of the footnote command is displayed in a special colour.
>
> I read the thread "Changes in Syntax Highlighting", posted by Sven Bretfeld
> et. al. two years ago
> (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=200511041137.33167.s
>ven.bretfeld%40theol.unibe.ch). I modified my latex.xml config file and it
> works, but not perfectly. As Holger Danielsson told in due time, the syntax
> in only hightlighted until the first closing brace. To me, this is a real
> problem for I'm using a lot of other LaTeX commands within the footnotes.
> So syntax hightlighting mostly ends before the end of my footnotes.
>
> Holger suggested to modify the latex.xml file in a way to parse the
> footnote text recursively, but I don't know how to manage this (I'm just an
> historian working on my phd thesis...)

You could try the attached latex.xml file.
I just copied the sectioning recursive parsing and do the same for \footnote.

Thomas