Dear groffers, as one of the things coming out of my master thesis (written completely in ms with Groff), here is a small preprocessor for syntax highlighting code blocks based on Pygments:
https://github.com/rhaberkorn/groff-tools#highlight-python btw. I also still have Scintilla/Lexilla syntax highlighting support for Troff lying around for years, that could improve dozens of text editors. But I don't know when I will find the time and motivation to polish it up. Once you dive into Troff as a language, you realize that it's actually unparseable in therefore impossible to properly syntax highlight. Even after restricting the language in sane ways that will work in 99.9% of the cases, it's still hard to highlight *correctly*. Basically you will have to reimplement a large part of the Groff-parser to do it right, as you need intimate knowledge of the syntax of certain requests. And then, there ideally needs to be support for the other Troff variants out there as well. That's why I never contributed it to the Lexilla project. Best regards, Robin
