highlighting tag

Question

The current highlighting tag has 399 questions.

Its current short description is:

• {highlighting} is about highlighting document elements. Use this tag in addition to other tags specifying what should be highlighted.

These are a mixture of questions about highlighting things in the output PDF and syntax highlighting in the source document.

There was some discussion of this 5 years ago here:

• Some tagging questions

Since we have a lot of both sorts, but they really have nothing in common, I've created a new tag syntax-highlighting to distinguish editor highlighting from other sorts. I've added the following tag wiki:

• Many editors are able to highlight TeX keywords and other document components with different colours within the source code. Use this tag in conjunction with the editors tag and the tag for your specific editor to ask questions about modifying the syntax highlighting for your particular editor.

Unless there are some objections I think it makes sense to gradually split apart the two sorts of questions. I'll also adjust the highlighting tag accordingly.

Answer 1

Well, one possibility is to find a good word for "highlighting teh output not teh code" and ban highlighting completely; this would force people to choose one of the more specific tags and hopefully avoid using highlighting where syntax-highlighting should be.

I suggest highlighting-output, even though it's not optimal as a tag name.