Colorer-take5 Library Features

• Supports more than two hundred programming languages, scripts and markups.
• Uses powerful and flexible HRC syntax description language, based on regular expressions and scheme (context) structure.
• Core is on portable C++. Can be easily integrated into any target application.
• Java API available, C-based API can easily be adopted.
• End user applications for Eclipse platform, FAR Manager and Midnight Commander shells.
• Built-in unicode support: UTF 8/16/32, single-byte encodings support.

HRC syntax descriptions

• Powerful descriptive language, XML syntax.
• Mature internal design:
  • Separate type namespaces.
  • Free linking between schemas (forward inheritance and switch references).
  • HRC Region information extension, region inheritance tree, transparent HRC linking.
  • Single repository of HRCs referenced via catalog.xml file for shared usage
  • Global library logging and tracing.

HRD styles

• Universal syntax to customize visual appearance of colorized source code.
• For different platform capabilities there could be different supporting HRD styles.
• Make a clear content-presentation separation layer.