Text Formatting ⇒ Automatic formating of certain words

[div]

Hi there,

I'm quite new to TeX and I'm wondering if there is a package or any other way to achieve the following:
I want to format certain words (could be up to 150) automatically in my TeX project.

I imagined something like this:
I define a "wordlist" and a format somewhere (in the main tex document?):
\blacklist{word1;word2;word3;word4;word5;...}
\blacklist_format{\color{red}}

The result should be that after compiling the document every word which was listed in the blacklist is automatically rendered in red.

Is something like this possible? I searched quite a while on the net but haven't found anything.

Thanks and regards,
div

[johnjamessmith0]

The following is probably not very helpful. Sorry.

To my knowledge, most of the time it's impossible to touch anything that's not in a command without using very low level TeX stuff... maybe someone here can help you do that. But personally, I can't think of any situation in which I would want to universally change the formatting of certain words; perhaps if you told us what you're trying to accomplish we might be able to help more.

If you're really desperate, you can always write a quick script in any programming language to take in a .tex file and color all occurrences of those words.

[div]

Thanks for your reply.

I think you're right, I think I'll write a small console application to parse the tex files.

[localghost]

You may provide this script here for the case that others are also interested. In case the problem is solved this would also be a good opportunity to mark the topic accordingly as described in Section 3 of the Board Rules.


Best regards
Thorsten