[TxMt] syntax tool

[Allan Odgaard]

On Jan 16, 2005, at 7:41, Eric Hsu wrote:

> And if one sets colors in a global stylesheet, how should one handle 
> one language embedded in another? E.g. PHP/HTML or Perl/HTML?

With only one global style sheet both languages would use the same 
colors. But you can target the embedded language like this:

    HTML PHP strings { fgColor: blue; }

That would be 'strings' elements descendent of a PHP element descendent 
of a HTML element.

So there are really two hierarchies at play, and including 'perl' in 
the language element name (as you did) should not be necessary, since 
you can do: “Perl strings” instead of “strings.*.perl”.

Makes sense? Basically we have one dynamic hierarchy that is the 
context/location of the element (e.g. is the string child or descendent 
of PHP/C++/whatever) and a rather static type-hierarchy (is it 
'strings.single-quoted' or 'strings.double-quoted').