From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-10-11T01:59:16+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN]  Ruby Code & Style

Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, James Britt wrote:
..

>>
>> 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.)
> 
> 
> vim does this from the command line.  this converts a directory full of 
> ruby
> files to syntax highlighted html:
> 
>   for f in *.rb;do vim -f +"syn on" +"run! syntax/2html.vim" +"wq" +"q" 
> $f;done

Ah so!  See, vim has *everything* !
...

>> *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 would be trivial to write a ruby app that scanned to the 'indent' class,
> extracted all the next before the matching/closing pre, wrote a tmp file,
> converted it to html, and munged the html file in place with marked up ruby
> code.  let me know if you want me to do it and provide me with a sample 
> html
> file unless you think a file save-as from the site will do.

I'll send you a sample file.  Yours, actually, from RC&S, after the 
markup had been applied.

> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> the thing with vim is that it will determine the automatically from 
> either the
> file extension or the shebang line - no special css needed.

Except that a single ArtimaML file might have source code for multiple 
different languages.

James

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