[TxMt] Latex syntax highlighting bug with quotes

Charilaos Skiadas cskiadas at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 02:40:59 UTC 2007


On Aug 22, 2007, at 9:27 PM, Kevin Horton wrote:

> I'm using the LaTeX bundle from SVN, updated daily (currently at  
> r8019).  One of my documents has the following line of text, which  
> causes the syntax highlighting to misfire:
>
> \textbf{Top row} - Manifold Pressure (`` HG) and Fuel Pressure ($ 
> \mathrm{lb/in^{2}}$).\\
>
> The fact that the quotes are not closed seems to be the problem.   
> But, I believe this is a perfectly legal usage, if you want to use  
> an abbreviation for "inches".

I'm afraid the only way we can avoid highlighting this incorrectly is  
if we completely disable highlighting of quotes, which I'd rather  
avoid doing. Would Jenny's suggestion work for you?

> Kevin Horton
> Ottawa, Canada

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College







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