@Richard LaJoie,
Maybe this will help explain what @Claudia-Frank has been trying to say: In order for us to help you figure out what’s wrong with your UDL, you would need to show us an example of a file that you want highlighted, and show us what’s not being highlighted correctly.
What we would need would be a screenshot like
That one actually shows a C-program, with Language > C > C selected; it shows “C source file” in the lower-left to indicate that’s the language selected. And looking at the screenshot, you can see the #include in different color than the (), and the "Hello, World" in a different color than printf. If this were you screenshot, the lower-left would show “User Define File - Minnekraft”, and the text would be whatever would be expected for “Minnekraft” text (source code or data or whatever you are trying to highlight in the Minnekraft-type file). You would then describe what was wrong with the highlighting shown in the Minnekraft file.
Instead, you have shown us something like this:
You have an empty text file. There is nothing for the Language Syntax Highlighter to highlight (it’s empty), so we cannot tell you what’s going wrong. In my second example, I have told Notepad++ that my empty document is C. That’s nice and all, but since there is no text (C or otherwise) in the file to highlight, selecting the C language does nothing, because there’s nothing to highlight. The confusion Claudia has expressed is that all you’ve shown us is a blank document, and it seems to her (and to me) that you are expecting a blank document to be highlighted, which makes no sense to us.
The extra screenshots you showed of your UDL definition would be somewhat useful, but not without also giving us an example Minnekraft file, showing how it doesn’t get highlighted properly, and explaining how you think it should be highlighted.
That is the screenshot Claudia has been asking for. To embed an image so we can see it without clicking, use the Markdown Syntax shown below (Markdown is used by this forum to enter your questions):
![](http://i.imgur.com/Uercm86.png)
Note that it’s similar to the normal link syntax, but with an exclamation point ! before the [](http://i.imgur.com/Uercm86.png). This code inline in my post embeds the second image I used above.
Also, to help us help you, you might want to give us the raw text of an example Minnekraft document. To do that, use Markdown’s code syntax, which requires teh code to be indented by four spaces. To show us an example of Minnekraft file, such as the following:
This is my indented
example of Minnekraft text
You woud use
Here is your initial question text
This is YOUR indented
example of Minnekraft text,
indented 4 spaces compared
to your question text
And here is further question text, no longer indented
Make sure it’s a short example, because there isn’t a huge amount of space in one post in this forum.
And since the screenshots of a UDL aren’t always sufficient (your shots don’t say what formatting you’ve chosen for each item, for example), you could use: Language > Define Your Language, then select Minnekraft from the dropdown of the UDL interface, then click Export and save the file, then paste the text of the file (indented an additional 4 spaces) in your question.
With all of that, we could grab your short Minnekraft file, we could import your UDL’s XML definition, and we could experiment to help you figure out what’s going wrong.
But for now, all we can say is, “of course nothing’s being highlighted; your document is empty, and there’s nothing to highlight”. But I doubt you’d find that helpful.