Introduction

ConTEXT Highlighters Automatic Updater (CHAU) is a tool to update the highlighters files of the ConTEXT text editor.



An highlighter is a file that stores configuration to highlight a specific language in the text editor (keywords colouration, braces colouration,.....)



Highlighter files are stored in the subdirectory "Highlighters" of ConTEXT installation path (usually C:\Program files\Context\Highlighters).

Software installation

CHAU must be installed in installation directory of ConTEXT, for example if you have installed ConTEXT in 

C:\Program Files\ConTEXT
you must install CHAU in 
C:\Program Files\ConTEXT\CHAU




Requirements are :
  • Presence of ConTEXT, you can find it on ConTEXT link on top bar
  • Presence of Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 5.0, you can find it on Java link on top bar

Adapt project to another text editor

At the base CHAU project had be developed for architecture of ConTEXT text editor, this text editor use text files identified by CHL extension to store highlighting informations but CHAU software can be adapted very easly for others text editors who use the same highligting system.



Indeed CHAU project is only link to ConTEXT by the configuration, i will write a tutorial to show how to adapt CHAU to others editors....



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