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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi Norman,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I cannot help you with Geany, but out of curiosity, what music software is using this file format? And you might be better, using one of these: Sibelius/Finale/Notion6 or an affordable alternative like these bellow.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Good luck!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Eugene</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><a href="https://blogs.systweak.com/10-best-free-music-notation-software-for-windows-2018/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="enhancr_card_8216202026">Top Best Free Music Notation Software for Windows 2020</a></span><div><br></div><div id="ydp7382b85benhancr_card_8216202026" class="ydp7382b85byahoo-link-enhancr-card ydp7382b85bymail-preserve-class ydp7382b85bymail-preserve-style" style="max-width:400px;font-family:YahooSans, Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" data-url="https://blogs.systweak.com/10-best-free-music-notation-software-for-windows-2018/" data-type="YENHANCER" data-size="MEDIUM" contenteditable="false"><a href="https://blogs.systweak.com/10-best-free-music-notation-software-for-windows-2018/" style="text-decoration:none !important;color:#000 !important" class="ydp7382b85byahoo-enhancr-cardlink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><table border="0" class="ydp7382b85bcard-wrapper ydp7382b85byahoo-ignore-table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width:400px"><tbody><tr><td width="400"><table border="0" class="ydp7382b85bcard ydp7382b85byahoo-ignore-table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="max-width:400px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(224, 228, 233);border-radius:2px"><tbody><tr><td class="ydp7382b85bcard-primary-image-cell" background="https://s.yimg.com/lo/api/res/1.2/cMZhaV.aY5eCppPdJ9b8rA--~A/Zmk9ZmlsbDt3PTQwMDtoPTIwMDthcHBpZD1pZXh0cmFjdA--/https://cdn.systweak.com/content/wp/systweakblogsnew/uploads_new/2018/01/Music-Notation-Software-for-Windows.jpg.cf.jpg" bgcolor="#000000" valign="top" height="175" style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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On Sunday, April 19, 2020, 7:07:48 PM EDT, Lex Trotman <elextr@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">> Clearly I am missing something that I am not doing correctly to get the syntax highlighting to work.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Yes. :)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Syntax highlighting is done by the Scintilla (the editing widget,<br clear="none">separate project) lexers, not by Geany. The styling just maps the<br clear="none">Scintilla syntactic entities to styles, it does not define the<br clear="none">entities. The lexers are C++ code, not something that can be defined<br clear="none">by users outside the configuration the lexer code allows.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Some lexers allow keyword lists as you have noticed, but thats within<br clear="none">the framework of the language being analysed, not to define a whole<br clear="none">new language (well, unless your new language is extremely similar).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Then there is the question of where to go for the symbols.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Symbols are defined by parsers imported from the universal ctags<br clear="none">project, and those parsers are C code. Because they parse language<br clear="none">semantics to get symbols they are much less flexible than the<br clear="none">highlighting lexers.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> A noddy guide to getting started, with examples would be very useful. Thanks in advance.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">There is no example because lexers are not part of the Geany project,<br clear="none">they are just imported from Scintilla every time a new version is<br clear="none">included. As the manual says you can define a new filetype using an<br clear="none">existing lexer, and/or parser, but you can't define a new one without<br clear="none">compiling new code.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Cheers<br clear="none">Lex<br clear="none"><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> NornB<br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> Users mailing list<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Users@lists.geany.org" href="mailto:Users@lists.geany.org">Users@lists.geany.org</a><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users" target="_blank">https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users</a><div class="yqt5598719807" id="yqtfd17248"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Users mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Users@lists.geany.org" href="mailto:Users@lists.geany.org">Users@lists.geany.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users" target="_blank">https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users</a><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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