2011/8/14 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Dear gang,
As some of you may know, I'm working on a professional introductory book for learning ConTeXt. Part of the philosophy of this book is to be as self-contained as possible, so we'll be using a preferred editor.
Not one editor/ide out there is ideal for ConTeXt (including bidi editing and other user-friendly configurability). The best balance I could find is Notepad++ (Npp), and that's what I'm going with. I have done a lot of work to contextify it, and I have added some new features, such as a context-menu where one can right-click and get a list of ConTeXt typography and description options, experimental support for tooltips (giving options for commands etc), no more manual braces (so far less run errors) etc.
To take this to the next level I need help: Is there anyone on the list who knows how to write and compile lexers for scintilla-based editors? Also, how to compile C++ for M$-Windows based applications such as Npp?
I've used gub http://lilypond.org/gub/ to cross-compile object modules from linux to windows Under Windows there is mingw http://www.mingw.org but I don't know about something similar to gub There is also the express edition of the microsoft compiler,see http://www.microsoft.com/express -- luigi