From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Date: 2005-12-31T20:08:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax highligth with textile: Syntax+RedCloth ?

Ross Bamford ha scritto:
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:53:30 -0000, gabriele renzi  
> <surrender_it@-remove-yahoo.it> wrote:
> 
>> Hi gurus and nubys,
>>
>> I was trying to mix RedCloth[1] with Syntax[2] and I'm
>> facing some small problems.
>> The idea is to forward parsing of <pre> tags to the HTML convertor
>> withouth touching the rest of the code.
>> I thought that I could subclass RedCloth and override #smooth_offtags
>> which seem quite nice since the starting <pre> tag is carried till 
>> that  point, which could allow, for example, parsing of something like
>> <pre lang="ruby">.
>>
>> The problem is in the fact that RC escapes html entities before this  
>> step, and thus when I call #convert on the string Syntax will 
>> tokenize  them and give back bad html.
>>
>> Has someone ever faced this before and has an alternate solution?
>>
> 
> Yup, don't it just suck? In the end we introduced a 'macro' concept by  
> which we could exempt sections of code from formatting filters.

yeah, I was leaning to the same solution, even if I still want to try 
out redefining to_html with something like
def to_html
  expand pre tags
  super
end

> Have a browse around here:
> 
>     http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/rote/lib/rote/?root=rote
> 
> Particularly inside 'page.rb' and the 'filters' directory, which has  
> various filters including syntax and redcloth.

great thanks