General ⇒ Workaround for syntax highlighting after $ in verbatim?

[schweinhundert]

Hi,

I'm writing something with a code listing inside verbatim, and that uses a $ inside of it. It's unpaired, so the syntax highlighting shows green for the rest of the document. This has actually been reported as a bug http://sourceforge.net/p/texniccenter/bugs/318/, but it's still open 2.5 years later. Does anyone know of a workaround for this until it gets fixed?

Thanks

[Johannes_B]

You could outsource the listing into it's own texfile and input it back in your document. This way the highlighting is only messed up in the file containing the listing.

[schweinhundert]

Hm. Okay, that could work, thanks. Unfortunately I have a bunch of these as tiny snippets, so it's going to be cumbersome.

Interestingly, I still have TexnicCenter 1.0 installed on my laptop, and the issue does not exist there.

[Johannes_B]

You could also hide the dollarsign in a macro.

EDIT: Well, that won't work obviously.

But try this:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\def\dollar{\$}
\lstset{
	literate={4>}{\$}1
}
\begin{document}
\dollar
\begin{lstlisting}
\dollar
\$
4>
\end{lstlisting}
\end{document}

Now every instance of 4> is replaced with a dollar dign in the output. You might want to use something else, something easy to remember for you. now that i think about it, how about §?

[schweinhundert]

Nice, the latter works (with a special character). Thank you.

Any chance of a fix for this?

[Johannes_B]

Since i am not the developer, take a look at the TeXnicCenter Support. Make sure, to bump an existing issue before creating a new ticket.