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I use Pandoc which allows mixing of markdown and latex. It would be nice to have syntax highlighting working for both. Any thoughts on the best way to achieve this?

bjw
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You should create a new language grammar for Pandoc files that incorporates the Markdown and LaTeX grammars. There are two ways to include rules from other grammars:

  1. Use an include rule and reference elements from the other grammars. For example this would reference include the complete LaTeX and Markdown grammars:

    { patterns = ( 
  { include = 'text.html.markdown'; },
  { include = 'text.tex.latex'; },
  ); 
}

    It is also possible to cherry pick rules from the grammars repository by using this form: 

    { include = 'text.html.markdown#block'; }

  2. Use injection grammars. You can read more about those on the TextMate blog.

Hope this helps!

Dirk Geurs
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  • Apologies for the delay, however it's not clear to me where this snippet should sit... It looks like Json which might be converted to a plist, but isn't valid json. Guidance for ST2 would be most helpful. – bjw Dec 11 '13 at 09:35
  • OK, so I found this page on syntax definitions in ST2 using yaml: http://sublime-text-unofficial-documentation.readthedocs.org/en/sublime-text-2/reference/syntaxdefs.html and I've tried this: https://gist.github.com/puterleat/7907963 to no avail... nothing gets highlighted when that definition is activated. – bjw Dec 11 '13 at 10:07
  • I'm not sure about Sublime (I don't use it), but in Textmate 2 you can choose Bundles -> Edit Bundles from the menu. Either create a new language grammar in an existing bundle or create a new bundle. Check out the documentation on how to write grammars: http://manual.macromates.com/en/language_grammars#language_grammars – Dirk Geurs Dec 11 '13 at 14:47