How to add missing keywords to Pandoc language for syntax highlighting

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I'm writing an ebook using Pandoc for a proprietary programming language, similar to SQL. I found out how to change the color by adding -s --highlight-style haddock when creating the book, but there are about 50 or so keywords that are missing. I noticed, reading through other posts, that you can change the color of the scheme, but I haven't found any way to actually create a new language with all the SQL keywords + my new ones or to just update the SQL language with the new keywords I need.

How can I create either a new language or update the SQL language to add my new keywords?

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Pandoc uses the syntax definitions of Kate, the KDE editor. See the repo to see the available syntax XML files.

To get the new keywords working, you'll need to modify the respective file and pass it to pandoc via the --syntax-definition option. Pass it as part of the pandoc_args field when using R Markdown.

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