Background: I have used WinEdt up to now for TeX-related tasks.
Problems: a) no unicode; b) no bidirectionality.
I use the ConTeXt macropackage, not LaTeX. Scite has strong ConTeXt support (the main developer uses it) but no bidi (afaik) and a bit alien to my tastes. Notepad++ seems similar enough to WinEdt/Scite-Scintilla so I have decided to switch.
Am now working on setting up Notepad++ for TeX/ConTeXt and have some questions; I am not much of a programmer so please be patient if I appear clueless at times:
1) In ConTeXt we have very frequent (a la xml) constructs like
\starttext
:
\stoptext
How do I get N++ to recognize these. It seems that N++ recognizes them without the backslash but not with the backslash.
2) Double-clicking a backslash-command (eg \starttext) selects the text of the command (starttext) but not the entire command. Can this be configured?
3) ConTeXt commands enclose their options inside of square brackets []. Can I define a list of option-keywords that will take on a certain color when typeset within a [] environment?
4) I could not find an xml file for the TeX-language setup; is it hardwired?
I'm sure I'll have plenty of other questions soon.
Best
Idris
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Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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Hi,
I'm new to Notepad++ and to this forum.
Background: I have used WinEdt up to now for TeX-related tasks.
Problems: a) no unicode; b) no bidirectionality.
I use the ConTeXt macropackage, not LaTeX. Scite has strong ConTeXt support (the main developer uses it) but no bidi (afaik) and a bit alien to my tastes. Notepad++ seems similar enough to WinEdt/Scite-Scintilla so I have decided to switch.
Am now working on setting up Notepad++ for TeX/ConTeXt and have some questions; I am not much of a programmer so please be patient if I appear clueless at times:
1) In ConTeXt we have very frequent (a la xml) constructs like
\starttext
:
\stoptext
How do I get N++ to recognize these. It seems that N++ recognizes them without the backslash but not with the backslash.
2) Double-clicking a backslash-command (eg \starttext) selects the text of the command (starttext) but not the entire command. Can this be configured?
3) ConTeXt commands enclose their options inside of square brackets []. Can I define a list of option-keywords that will take on a certain color when typeset within a [] environment?
4) I could not find an xml file for the TeX-language setup; is it hardwired?
I'm sure I'll have plenty of other questions soon.
Best
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523