[NTG-context] Making a verbatim file for another language

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> On 12/29/06, cormullion at mac.com wrote:
> > OK, I think vim works OK here, so this is what I tried:
> >
> > ...
> > \setupcolors[state=start]
> >
> > \usemodule[vimsyntax]
> >
> > \definetypeVIMfile [typeRUBY] [syntax=ruby]
> >
> > \typeRUBY[typeRUBY]{fibo.rb}
> >
> > \defineVIMtyping[RUBY][syntax=ruby]
> >
> > \startRUBY
> > # This is a ruby program
> >
> > puts "Hello World"
> > \stopRUBY
> > ...
> >
> > Error message was this:
> >
> > system          : no macros found in module vimsyntax
> 
> Weird! Do you have a file t-vimsyntax.tex in the same folder as the
> file where you're running the sample? An alternative is to place the
> file under [texmf]/tex/context/third/t-vimsyntax.tex and then run
> "[sudo] mktexlsr".
> 
> But in any case you need to have 2context.vim in the same folder
> (there is no support for an arbitrary path of the script yet).
> 
> > ! Undefined control sequence.
> > l.15 \definetypeVIMfile
> >                          [typeRUBY] [syntax=ruby]
> >
> > So it looks like it didn't really get started... The files t-
> > vimsyntax.text and 2context.vim are rattling loose in the directory...
> 
> It has to be *t-vimsyntax.tex*, not *.text*, if that's the case. But
> if I try to rename the file, I get "module vimsyntax not found", while
> you get "no macros found in module vimsyntax".
> 
> While googling through the archive I've found the following message:
> http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20050215.182506.0838140e.en.html
> 
> Citing:
> > tracefiles showed that ConTeXt was expecting a file
> > name with six or less characters after t-; my module was called
> > t-utfgreek, so ConTeXt was looking for t-utfgre and couldn't find it

You can also try renaming t-vimsyntax.tex to t-vims.tex and then using 
\usemodule[vims]

But with an old ConTeXt, there can be other things that do not work. 
The best thing will be to update.


> Which version of TeX/ConTeXt are you using? (Perhaps Hans has changed
> something in the meantime, to make that work again.) Are you using
> Gerben's i-Installer? In that case and if you have a chance, can you
> please test the new TeXLive-based distribution?
> 
> (I didn't know that 8-char was still a limitation nowadays.)

AFAIK, it is not. The 8-char limitation was removed about two years 
ago.

Aditya