There was a BASIC to ASM translator on Ticalc years ago but it produced broken code. Such stuff would be really hard to achieve. However, with what came out from the TI community in the past two years, I do not think it is impossible to write a decent BASIC to ASM translator. I am fairly certain something that produces relatively good speed could be done. However, the produced code might be larger than Axe.  If you want to do it, then good luck!

Whoa, ok, I clearly need to check this more often...

If there is any token you want to change, you can modify the XML file. For the "<<" you have two choices, you can either type "<\<" in to the program (which is annoying, I need to work on the loading so that it'll break stuff up in the case of ambiguities like this), or you can change the XML.
<Token byte="$EB" string="<<" /> Could be change to:
<Token byte="$EB" string="<|" /> This is actually how it is with the newer version. I'm also waiting for Quigibo to get me a simplified list of all the Axe commands and what their function name should be, so that I can get an Axe.xml file so this can work better with Axe.

As for other special characters, the goal is to be able to type everything on a standard US keyboard. I don't want to require a picker, though I will probably have one because it's pretty easy to forget what things are what. So, not equals is != and store is ->. That way you can just type, and not have to be slowed down by needing a chooser.

I hope that addressed the questions that hadn't been answered. If there was something I missed, please ask again

There's plenty of literature out there about the file formats already, there's no need to figure it out on your own. http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/247/24750.html this is where I got all my information (and asking some other people on IRC). I host that document on my website as well, http://myserverathome.com/linkguide/

Sorry if this is off-topic, but do you happen to know Runer112, Merthsoft? I swear some screenshots he posted before were hosted on Myserverathome, which appears to be your domain name (unless your site is really linkguide )

Back on-topic, I wonder if you plan to add something that detects all variables that were called, used, stored to or deleted in the code including pictures, strings and the like? There's a french incarnation of SourceCoder that did that and it seemed like a cool feature.

Ah ok, maybe I got confused with a different URL. I swear he posted some of his own stuff from there, tho.

And I see. Can't wait for release

You're not the first person to mention that, actually. There's obvious going to be some level of re-learning that needs to be done in order to use this correctly, and the idea is that you should be able to enter everything in on the keyboard. I can think of a few ways to do this so that it's not terribly tedious. I'll think about how to implement it some more, and see if I come with anything I like. In the meantime, if you could upload your changes of the .xml file, that would be awesome!

You're not the first person to mention that, actually. There's obvious going to be some level of re-learning that needs to be done in order to use this correctly, and the idea is that you should be able to enter everything in on the keyboard. I can think of a few ways to do this so that it's not terribly tedious. I'll think about how to implement it some more, and see if I come with anything I like. In the meantime, if you could upload your changes of the .xml file, that would be awesome!

I'm just making some slight changes to it, I added the Axe Parser token alternates but forgot to specify that that's what they actually were, so I'm adding comments to signify Axe tokens.

EDIT: And following the idea of "Pretty" tags, do you think it would be possible to make something like an "Axe" tag? That way if you're editing an Axe source file, the tokens can default to the Axe token equivalences.