Hi!

I made several improvements to the textile syntax highlighting and now have a few questions, mostly on how to share it.

1. To whom do I mail the patch/new version or how do I get git access?

2. The header lists a few values:
version="3"
kateversion="3.0"
author="Alexander Kabakov (kabakov.as@gmail.com)"

Is it correct to set them to these values?
version="4" // next iteration of file
kateversion="18.04.2" // tested Kate version
author="Alexander Kabakov (kabakov.as@gmail.com), Arkadiusz Guzinski (kermit@ag.de1.cc)" // just adding myself

3. Textile is designed to create HTML, which can also be embeded within it. So it would make sense to hightlight HTML-Elements. I tried to do that with things like

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<IncludeRules context="Element##XML"/>

, but that always messes up everything else - probably because it doesn't #pop back from that context. Is there a way to get that right with <IncludeRules/> or do I need to write these rules myself?

4. Since I'm using textile with jekyll, textile files usually contain a yaml "Front Matter" header, which I have implemented via

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<context name="front_matter" attribute="yaml">
    <StringDetect attribute="yaml" String="---" context="#pop" firstNonSpace="true" endRegion="front_matter"/>
    <IncludeRules context="normal##YAML"/>
</context>

This, however is not standard textile and while I don't expect it to cause any problems for pure textile files the question remains: does it belong in textile's syntax highlighting, or should i make a derived syntax highlighting file "textile_with_yaml.xml" for this case? If so, what's the best way to get it loaded automaticly?


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Here is a quick summary of my changes:


fixes:
links: multiple links per line, link alias
image: dont hightlight text if sentence ends with '!' ; dirty support for !imagestuff!:url syntax
put period behind sectionheaders (is required - may not have been when original rules were written)

added:
footnotes
comments block (###.)
notextile. block
some inline formating
basic table support
yaml front matter

Have you tried contacting Alexander about all of this? He being the author would probably be the best one to answer most of these.