From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-10-11T01:23:37+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN]  Ruby Code & Style

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Oct 9, 2005, at 11:52 PM, James Britt wrote:
> 
>> The newest on-line resource for serious Ruby information has gone  live.
> 
> 
> I've read, and enjoyed, the first article.
> 
> Requests:
> 
> 1.  Could the code font size be increased a bit?

CTRL +

:)

I imagine alternate stylesheets could be added to supply for larger 
fonts.  But the site is generated by an semi-automated publishing 
process, so I don't know offhand how that would be added or who would be 
responsible.

(There's always mousehole and/or greasemonkey, for the more ambitious 
out there.)

> 2.  Any chance of syntax highlighting?

Man, some people want everything!

Indeed, syntax highlighting would be nice.  Are there existing Ruby apps 
that will take a source file and generate nice colored HTML?  (I bet 
there are; I'm too lazy/busy (blazy?) to look.)

The articles are published by a Java app (I think; might only be driven 
by a JSP but not processed by it) that reads a source article marked up 
in a Artima-publishing variant of HTML.

*Perhaps*, if anyone wants to take a shot, the markup could be 
pre-processed by a Ruby app that applies syntax coloring only to code 
within <pre class='indent'></pre> or <code></code> sections.

It may be possible to also toss in a marker class attribute value:
<pre class='indent ruby'>, or <pre class='indent java'> so that 
different code gets different syntax treatment.

(Is there a better way to indicate that some element contains 
preformatted code for a particular programming language?)


James

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