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Document Status	Initial Draft

Introduction

This document integrates approaches of the Syntax Highlighting used in the NetBeans Plugins that support various languages. Current version of the document covers the following plugins:

• Java
• JavaFX

Default Typeface

A typeface named as default is used as a basis for extension by all other typefaces. The default typeface has the following characteristics by default:

• foreColor="black"
• bgColor="white"
• font size="13"

Example of the default typeface:

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Syntax Highlighting

The table below explains approaches of the syntax highlighting across plugins.

Primary Category	Default [1]	Java [2]	JavaFX [3]
char	foreColor="ffCE7B00"	name="character"	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
comment	foreColor="ff969696"	name="comment"	name="comment"
error	waveUnderlined="red"	name="errors"	name="error"
format	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX	default="string" font style="bold"
i18n-artifact	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX	default="string" font style="bold+italic"
identifier	default	name="identifier"	name="identifier"
keyword	foreColor="ff0000E6"	name="keyword"	name="keyword"
keyword-directive	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX	default="keyword"	default="keyword" font style="bold"
keyword-literal	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX	default="identifier" font style="bold"
literal	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX	default="keyword"	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
number	foreColor="black"	name="number"	name="number"
operator	default	name="operator"	name="operator"
separator	default	name="separator"	name="separator"
string	foreColor="ffCE7B00"	name="string"	name="string"
time	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX	foreColor="magenta" default="default"
whitespace	foreColor="black"	name="whitespace"	default="whitespace"
OO Languges
field	foreColor="ff009900" default="identifier"
method	default="identifier"
Tag based languages
markup-element	default="keyword"
markup-attribute	default="field"
entity-reference	foreColor="black" font style="bold"

• [#1] The Default Syntax Highlighting is provided by the Editor module. It is defined in the main\editor\src\org\netbeans\modules\editor\resources\NetBeans-fontsColorsDefaults.xml file.
• [#2] The Java Syntax Highlighting is provided by the Java Editor module. It is defined in the main\java.editor\src\org\netbeans\modules\java\editor\resources\fontsColors.xml file.
• [#3] The JavaFX Syntax Highlighting is provided by the JavaFX Editor module. It is defined in both the javafx.editor/src/org/netbeans/modules/javafx/dataloader/resources/CityLights-JavaFX-fontsColors.xml file

and the javafx.editor/src/org/netbeans/modules/javafx/dataloader/resources/NetBeans-JavaFX-fontsColors.xml file. Note, it is proposal, but not a final implementation.