language-lexware

Atom text editor package for Lexware files, providing syntax coloring and key-bindings for Dene Athabascan languages

Installation

In the Atom text editor, Open Preferences, click “Install” and search for lexware. Click the Install button on language-lexware.

This language package should be automatically activated when you open (or save) a file with an extension of .lw (preferred for Lexware), .lexware or .lex (not preferred: clashes with the .lex extension of lex/flex parsers). You can also select language in Atom via the chooser launched with Cntl-Shft-L.

Features

Basic syntax coloring is provided. Please add an issue at https://github.com/alaskanlc/language-lexware/issues if you would like new coloration for bands.

Comments: A chunk of text can be ‘commented out’ using the # character at the beginning of a line: highlight the block and type Ctrl-/. Comments can used either for the author’s notes, or for temporarily excluding a block of text from the validator and dictionary processor.

Key bindings: Press the alt modifier key, plus one to two “character class” keys, plus the Latin character you want altered:

  alt b l      ->  ł 

  alt / a      ->  á   ... also for: A, E, e, I, i, O, o, U, u
  alt \ a      ->  à   ... also for: A, E, e, I, i, O, o, U, u
  alt ^ a      ->  â   ... also for: A, E, e, I, i, O, o, U, u
  alt v a      ->  ǎ   ... also for: A, E, e, I, i, O, o, U, u
  alt o a      ->  ą   ... also for: A, E, e, I, i, O, o, U, u
  alt o / a    ->  ą́   ... also for: A, E, e, I, i, O, o, U, u
  alt o \ a    ->  ą̀   ... also for: A, E, e, I, i, O, o, U, u