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TomCho
TomCho

Reputation: 3507

How to make Vim highlight Latex environments in Markdown

I use pandoc a lot which means that I write with a mix of markdown and latex a lot. The problem is that I can't make Vim highlight Latex as it should, even though pandoc understands it.

For example, the following snipet

# Header 1

Variable $x_0$ is defined as
\begin{align}
x_0=y_0^2
\end{align}

If I name it test.md Vim only sees markdown and fails to highlight $x_0$ and the align environment. I can make the situation a little bit better if I follow this answer then I can at least make the $ $ highlighted.

As a quick workaround I found that by naming the file with a .Rmd extension I get the $ $ to work, although that isn't strictly correct I guess.

But so far I have not been able to get both Markdown Syntax and Latex syntax simultaneously. Is there a way that can be done?

PS: I'm really trying to avoid installing obscure Vim plugins that need Vundle etc in the name of portability!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 790

Answers (1)

TomCho
TomCho

Reputation: 3507

The work around I found (almost by accident) was to copy this file, which is a syntax file for Pandoc, into ftplugin and add these lines to vimrc

augroup pandoc_syntax
    au! BufNewFile,BufFilePre,BufRead *.md set filetype=markdown.pandoc
augroup END

This is actually part of a plugin. But I found that this way is much simpler than having the whole plugin installed and much more portable.

Upvotes: 4

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