Quoting Mohamed Bana
nico
writes: I don't see the point. The native ConTeXt verbatim support seems to cover all what listings can do.
The wiki page gives some examples: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Verbatim_text
Regards, BG
Hi,
take a look at http://vega.soi.city.ac.uk/~abbg770/listing-sample.pdf, note you can customize the style of the font numbering, you can place a caption and my favourite is the colouring; if you use Eclipse you'll notice that it's the same colour the editor uses.
This can be done easily with current ConTeXt, for example: \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \setuplinenumbering[location=intext] \setuptyping[option=color] \startJV /** * The HelloWorldApp class implements an application that * simply prints "Hello World!" to standard output. */ class HelloWorldApp { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello World!"); // Display the string. } } \stopJV See the wiki page for adding line numbering and frames (or ask here if the wiki page is confusing). It is possible to change the color scheme and the wiki page gives an example. To make sure that the frames break around pages, you will need to use backgroundtext rather than framedtext. The only advantage of listings is that it provides support for a *lot* of languages out of the box. Writing a syntax highlighter is not easy. I mean, you need to define all kinds of keywords, write regex or parser for identifying comments, strings, escape sequences etc. No matter what language is used to write a syntax highlighter, writing a good syntax highlighter takes time. And hence the advantage of listing. In terms of features, I think it is not difficult to add the required display features in ConTeXt. Line numbering every n lines[1], using proportional fonts, fancy frames, etc are pretty straight-forward things. One option for the long term could be to write a module for mkiv, that can parse the syntax highlighting files of some editor and use them directly. Since most decent editors have syntax highlighting files for lot of languages, we will not have to do the hard work. (well, in case you don't like any available syntax highlighting, and want to roll your own, then it is a different matter). There is a module that uses vim to generate syntax highlighting. Mojca started the module, and I extended it when I needed syntax highlighting for a project. After that, I have not really updated it. It works by using vim to generate a tex file which is then read by context. The only drawback is the starting and stopping times of vim are fairly large (few secs for each file to be transformed). Aditya [1] Actually, line numbering every n lines is already supported.