New Lexicon: how to add a custom minted lexer in Overleaf

By computing

This quick post comes courtesy of LianTze Lim (an Overleaf TeXpert) and Kota Miura (a bioimage analyst).

I asked on the ImageJ forum some time ago how to add an ImageJ Macro lexer for a LaTeX document I was writing. Kota responded with this lexer for pygments. I then asked Overleaf if it was possible to add a custom lexer to an Overleaf document using the minted package. At the time this was not possible. However, I got a message from them today with a solution.

Steps to do this for your own Overleaf project:

  1. Add Kota’s imagejmacro.py file to your project
  2. Add minted to your preamble and then use
\begin{minted}{imagejmacro.py:ImageJMacroLexer -x}
// your code
\end{minted}

Here, imagejmacro.py is the name of the custom lexer saved in your project and ImageJMacroLexer is the name of the class in that file. If you want to use another custom lexer just replace as required. I have put up a read-only Overleaf example to show it working.

Thanks to LianTze for following up with me about this and special thanks to Kota who wrote the custom lexer.

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The post title comes from the LP of the same name by Paint It Black.

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