[TxMt] Latex Bundle grammar

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Sep 12, 2007, at 1:20 AM, Alain Matthes wrote:

> In a first time, we can forget the packages like pstricks and pgf.  
> The problem actually is all the functions have the same colour.

The problem of the color is a slightly different one. They are the  
same color because, syntactically, they are the same thing. Even if  
we distinguish them among their different packages, we will also need  
to customize the various themes to make the functions have different  
color depending on what package they are from.

You see, the problem is that LaTeX goes in some sense against TM's  
syntax coloring philosophy. TM tends to color things depending on  
their syntactic meaning. In LaTeX most everything is a function, so  
they are of course all colored as functions ;).

So we will need to figure out what principle we want to follow when  
coloring functions different from each other. I.e. how will we group  
the functions together? Should all functions in a package have the  
same color? Is there another division more meaningful?

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College