about txt and table

Questions
1

is there any way to manipulate the txt editor while running by code, and make text’s code syntaxhighlight as the same as code editor?

another question: from a txt like this

$text1 ????
1. Excuse me!
        ???
2. Yes?
        ????
3. Is this your handbag?
        ?????????
4. Pardon?
        ??????????
$text2 ???
5. Is this your handbag?
        ?????????
6. Yes, it is.
        ???????
7. Thank you very much.
        ?????
$text3 ???????
8. My coat and my umbrella please.
        ????????????
9. Here is my ticket.
        ?????????????
10. Thank you, sir.
        ??????
11. Number five.
        ?5??

i wanna get a table, each value is for an English sentence or a Chinese sentence, i know how to make it with \
, is there any better way?

2

If you wanted to have Lua/ Codea syntax formatting upon text entry, you could grab a table of keys from _G and compare this against each word entered, similar to how I did the autocomplete in the Lua interpreter I posted one the board a while ago.

I’m not sure if this is what you mean by your second question, but if you’re writing multi-line text and are bored of writing
, the easiest option is to use square braces:

myString = [[a multi line string
No need to write
Back-slash n
]]

Though you can also with regular quotation marks type backslash and then a literal carriage return, like this:

myString = "a multi line string\\
with backslash literal return\\
Line endings\\
"

The second one works, though it messes up Codea’s syntax highlighting. Syntax highlighting is quite hard!

I’m not sure if that’s the best way to organise a dictionary/phrasebook though. Have you tried using keys (like the utf language codes) to represent the different languages? Eg

Phrasebook = {
{ EN = "english phrase here", ZH = "Chinese phrase here"},
{ EN = "english phrase here", ZH = "Chinese phrase here"},
{ EN = "english phrase here", ZH = "Chinese phrase here"},
}

That would be a good structure if you ever decide to add more languages.

3

thanks, its a good structure, i changed a little:??–>text, please check out