From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2008-10-19T01:43:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Low level syntax highlighting tools?

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:32 PM, ara.t.howard <ara.t.howard@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 18, 2008, at 9:41 AM, Gregory Brown wrote:
>
>> 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"]]
>>
>> If such a tool exists, I can rejoice, because it'd allow me to build
>> an awsum Prawn based presentation builder.
>>
>> -greg
>
>
>
> it seems like using Hpricot against one of the current highlighters would
> work - just skim out innerHTML/class pairs right?

Hmm... that's an interesting idea too.  I'll take a quick look at how
easy it is to get under the hood of Code Ray, and if it seems
complicated, such a hack would probably do fine.

-greg


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