Hi,
Within the time constraints, I've done what searching I can through the docs, wiki, and mailing list archives to get a personal markup bundle working. Thanks to the clear documentation and a lot of the archived posts here, I have all the snippets and syntax coloring working. However, there are a couple of things that I still haven't worked out, which I could use a little help with. I apologize if they've been covered before and I missed them. If I had more time, I'd keep searching around for the answers, but with an upcoming deadline, I just have to get some guidance.
My bundle is called "jmarkup" and I've set most of the scope selectors to "text." (BTW, I still don't competely get how to choose scope selectors, despite reading that section many times.)
I'll probably do most of my writing in Latex or Markdown (or MMD), and currently I have to go back and forth between syntax coloring for either Latex or jmarkup.
1) Can I somehow set my scope so that I can see it colored while I'm in Latex and MMD?
2) Could someone point me to a place explaining how I could process my markup before the latex. E.g. So that when I hit the key combo to preview the Latex, everything is preprocessed to replace my [[note syntax ]] with Latex markup for left and right margin notes.
3) Referring to #2 above, could I have separate processing-replacements set up for whether I was making an output for myself (e.g. working draft with all notes and markup) or for my advisor (e.g. print draft without notes and hiding my in-line styles, like "revise" or "check facts")?
4) What would the best bundle be to use as an example of how to gather all "action" markups in to a separate document? For example, I might have a fact that is suffixed with [!check this!] and I want to gather all lines that have that [!...!] in them. I assume this might be similar to the TODO or GTDalt bundles but haven't checked them out yet.
Thanks all for any advice and help. I know I've asked a lot here, but even just pointers to where I can find the best examples of implementations of each would really help me out.
Thanks,
Jeff
On 6. May 2007, at 07:57, J Fischer wrote:
[...] My bundle is called "jmarkup" and I've set most of the scope selectors to "text." (BTW, I still don't competely get how to choose scope selectors, despite reading that section many times.)
That’s the scope selectors of your snippets (and commands)? If you want it to work in all text documents, that’d be fine, although the trailing comma is not needed.
You can also use a scope selector e.g. of: “text.tex, text.html.markdown, text.jmarkup” to limit it to onky those 3 scopes.
I'll probably do most of my writing in Latex or Markdown (or MMD), and currently I have to go back and forth between syntax coloring for either Latex or jmarkup.
- Can I somehow set my scope so that I can see it colored while
I'm in Latex and MMD?
If I understand you correctly, you have basically done *extensions* to LaTeX, but as its own grammar, thus you switch between having your extensions colored, or the “native” LaTeX syntax, is that correct?
- Could someone point me to a place explaining how I could process my
markup before the latex. E.g. So that when I hit the key combo to preview the Latex, everything is preprocessed to replace my [[note syntax ]] with Latex markup for left and right margin notes.
While not rocket science, this is not trivial either.
LaTeX works with files on disk, that means, if you want to preprocess your files before giving them to pdflatex,but still retain the non- preprocessed version (for further editing), you would effectively need to either copy your latex files to a temporary build location, where you run pdflatex on your master file, or alternatively, backup all your latex files, then preprocess them, and restore again after having called pdflatex.
With LaTeX, I think it’s better to define new commands in the language, than use preprocessing.
- Referring to #2 above, could I have separate processing-
replacements set up for whether I was making an output for myself (e.g. working draft with all notes and markup) or for my advisor (e.g. print draft without notes and hiding my in-line styles, like "revise" or "check facts")?
You can, yes. Though I think LaTeX has packages for “drafts”, so it’d probably be better to learn that system, than setting up this tool chain.
- What would the best bundle be to use as an example of how to
gather all "action" markups in to a separate document? For example, I might have a fact that is suffixed with [!check this!] and I want to gather all lines that have that [!...!] in them. I assume this might be similar to the TODO or GTDalt bundles but haven't checked them out yet.
Yes, this is effectively what the TODO bundle does. Probably you’d be better off with using markup such as: % TODO check this, and simply run the Show TODO List action from the TODO bundle (it has a help file with details about the markup).
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Allan Odgaard -
J Fischer