[Tex/LaTex] Customising Syntax Highlighting in TeXmaker

highlightingsyntaxtexmaker

I'm wondering if there is any way to add new syntax highlighting patterns to TeXmaker.

I've been using TeXworks for years and I love that special characters $ & { [ etc. are highlighted differently form everything else. The rest of the Texworks editor is a little minimalist though and I've been thinking of changing to a more feature rich editor. In particular, I like the "structure" and code folding that TeXmaker offers.

In Texworks you can define custom syntax patterns by editing the syntax-patterns.tex file. Is there a similar thing hidden in TeXmaker somewhere? I've obviously found the custom syntax colouring menu in Preferences > colour but this has a very prescriptive set of categories with no option to highlight custom strings differently.

Alternatively, does anybody know of another editor which offers customisable or TeXworks-style syntax highlighting and code folding.

Failing that, TeXmaker is open source right? Does anybody know about how syntax highlighting is taken care of? Perhaps I could hack a solution implementing customisable syntax highlighting for TeXmaker.

Best Answer

I suggest you have a look at TexStudio. It's a feature rich fork of TeXmaker and has an extended syntax highlighting with more options than TeXmaker. It also has a custom highlighting section in the options, note that this is an unfinished feature though. But probably it will do the trick for you.

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] \lstdefinestyle syntax highlighting

One way to do achieve this would be to define otherkeywords for these cases.

otherkeywords={attribute=, xmlns=}

enter image description here

Code:

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}

\usepackage{listings, color}

\definecolor{forestgreen}{RGB}{34,139,34}
\definecolor{orangered}{RGB}{239,134,64}
\definecolor{darkblue}{rgb}{0.0,0.0,0.6}
\definecolor{gray}{rgb}{0.4,0.4,0.4}

\lstdefinestyle{XML} {
    language=XML,
    extendedchars=true, 
    breaklines=true,
    breakatwhitespace=true,
    emph={},
    emphstyle=\color{red},
    basicstyle=\ttfamily,
    columns=fullflexible,
    commentstyle=\color{gray}\upshape,
    morestring=[b]",
    morecomment=[s]{<?}{?>},
    morecomment=[s][\color{forestgreen}]{<!--}{-->},
    keywordstyle=\color{orangered},
    stringstyle=\ttfamily\color{black}\normalfont,
    tagstyle=\color{darkblue}\bf,
    morekeywords={attribute,xmlns,version,type,release},
    otherkeywords={attribute=, xmlns=},
}

\begin{document}

\begin{lstlisting}[style=XML]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!-- Edited by XMLSpy® -->
<note attribute="main" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <to>Tove</to>
    <from>Jani</from>
    <heading>Reminder</heading>
    <body>Dont forget me this weekend!</body>
</note>
\end{lstlisting}

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] lstinputlistings syntax highlighting

It is always good to post a minimal and compilable example, not just code snippets. This way, the answerers do not have to guess what's happening with your problem.

I guess that you are looking for something like this.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\lstset{language=Python,
        morekeywords={as,__init__,MyClass},
        keywordstyle=\color{teal}\bfseries,
        }
\begin{document}
\lstinputlisting{guess.py}
\end{document}

where guess.py is your sample code snippet. I just added as on the last line to show that morekeywords works.

class MyClass(Yourclass):
    def __init__(self, myvar, yours):
        bla bla bla... as

Here is the output.

enter image description here

You can also remove __init__ from morekeywords option and use the answers in How to I emphazise all words beginning with ` in an lstlisting and Listings language definition keyword suffixes. So you may put the following code snippet into your preamble.

\lstset{language=Python,
    morekeywords={as,MyClass},
        keywordstyle=\color{teal}\bfseries,
        keywordsprefix=_,
        }

Let me know if this works for you.

Related Question

[Tex/LaTex] Disable syntax highlighting in Texmaker