" Vim syntax file
" Language:	Rich Text Format
"		"*.rtf" files
"
" The Rich Text Format (RTF) Specification is a method of encoding formatted
" text and graphics for easy transfer between applications.
" .hlp (windows help files) use compiled rtf files
" rtf documentation at http://night.primate.wisc.edu/software/RTF/
"
" Maintainer:	Dominique Stéphan (dominique@mggen.com)
" URL: http://www.mggen.com/vim/syntax/rtf.zip
" Last change:	2001 Mai 02

" TODO: render underline, italic, bold

" quit when a syntax file was already loaded
if exists("b:current_syntax")
  finish
endif

" case on (all controls must be lower case)
syn case match

" Control Words
syn match rtfControlWord	"\\[a-z]\+[\-]\=[0-9]*"

" New Control Words (not in the 1987 specifications)
syn match rtfNewControlWord	"\\\*\\[a-z]\+[\-]\=[0-9]*"

" Control Symbol : any \ plus a non alpha symbol, *, \, { and } and '
syn match rtfControlSymbol	"\\[^a-zA-Z\*\{\}\\']"

" { } and \ are special characters, to use them
" we add a backslash \
syn match rtfCharacter		"\\\\"
syn match rtfCharacter		"\\{"
syn match rtfCharacter		"\\}"
" Escaped characters (for 8 bytes characters upper than 127)
syn match rtfCharacter		"\\'[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9]"
" Unicode
syn match rtfUnicodeCharacter	"\\u[0-9][0-9]*"

" Color values, we will put this value in Red, Green or Blue
syn match rtfRed		"\\red[0-9][0-9]*"
syn match rtfGreen		"\\green[0-9][0-9]*"
syn match rtfBlue		"\\blue[0-9][0-9]*"

" Some stuff for help files
syn match rtfFootNote "[#$K+]{\\footnote.*}" contains=rtfControlWord,rtfNewControlWord

" Define the default highlighting.
" Only when an item doesn't have highlighting yet
command -nargs=+ HiLink hi def link <args>


HiLink rtfControlWord		Statement
HiLink rtfNewControlWord	Special
HiLink rtfControlSymbol	Constant
HiLink rtfCharacter		Character
HiLink rtfUnicodeCharacter	SpecialChar
HiLink rtfFootNote		Comment

" Define colors for the syntax file
hi rtfRed	      term=underline cterm=underline ctermfg=DarkRed gui=underline guifg=DarkRed
hi rtfGreen	      term=underline cterm=underline ctermfg=DarkGreen gui=underline guifg=DarkGreen
hi rtfBlue	      term=underline cterm=underline ctermfg=DarkBlue gui=underline guifg=DarkBlue

HiLink rtfRed	rtfRed
HiLink rtfGreen	rtfGreen
HiLink rtfBlue	rtfBlue

delcommand HiLink


let b:current_syntax = "rtf"

" vim:ts=8