Hi Jan, > The standard markup styles are applied, but unfortunately they are all grey > (of course, since they are meant to be for comments). So I do need my own > styles, as I do not want the documentation window to have grey text. You can get different colors with something like this: local styles = StylesGetDefault() MarkupAddStyles(styles) styles.text.fg = {0, 0, 255} styles['**'].fg = {255, 0, 0} styles['_'].fg = {0, 255, 0} SetupKeywords(e,"lua",nil,styles,ide.font.oNormal,ide.font.oItalic) StylesApplyToEditor(styles,e,ide.font.oNormal,ide.font.oItalic) This will color the bold fragments green and italic fragments red while the rest of the text will be blue. I tried and couldn't get it to work using your markup (^^* and ^^_), so I'm checking what may be causing this. It's not intended to work with the markup you have, but I'm curious as to why it wouldn't. Will update if I find the issue... Paul.