On 2022-06-06 17:41, David W Pacey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a newcomer to Kate, but cannot get my head around syntax
> highlighting, I work with GEDCom files and when I use UltraEdit or
> even Notepad++ the tags in my gedcom file are highlighted, could
> anyone help me with this please, maybe a sample file that I could
> edit, or maybe someone has already created one?

Hi,

we have some good documentation how to write an highlighting in our 
manual:

https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/katepart/highlight.html

A lot of highlighting are available as templates:

https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/-/tree/master/data/syntax

Greetings
Christoph

> 
> Thank you for your help
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David W Pacey
> 
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