From: "Jean-François Trân" <jftran@...>
Date: 2008-10-19T01:11:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Low level syntax highlighting tools?

2008/10/18 Gregory Brown :

> I'll confess I didn't research this deeply, in hopes that someone
> knows of a library and can point me right at it.
>
> Are there any syntax gems out there that'll spit back simple strings
> and color values,
> something like:
>
> [["def foo\n", "ccffcc"], ["  bar()\n", "ffffff" ], ["end", "ccffcc"]]

I guess no, but if you're using a syntax-colorizing, I think the
thing to do is using the scanner/tokenizer part, that will yield you
tokens for a specified language, and then you just have to create
your own class of Encoder/Converter that will consume tokens
and generate what you need, here an array like you want. It should
be easy, for example, with CodeRay [1] : write your encoder, and
don't use the html encoder.

> If such a tool exists, I can rejoice, because it'd allow me to build
> an awsum Prawn based presentation builder.

Very interesting. I was also thinking of using Prawn to generate
slides.

   -- Jean-François.

[1] http://coderay.rubychan.de

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