From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2003-03-22T02:32:19+09:00
Subject: Re: [Ruby] Re: Ruby & LaTeX

On Saturday, 22 March 2003 at  2:15:41 +0900, Walter Cazzola wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Jim Freeze wrote:
> 
> > > Dear Ruby Experts,
> > > I'm new to Ruby notwithstanding that I have the following silly problem:
> > > I have to list some ruby code in a paper I'm writing by using LaTeX, I
> > > would like to pretty print such a code but both listings.sty and
> > > lgrinds.sty (two LaTeX styles for pretty printing list of code) do not
> > > support the ruby language.
> 
> > Are you looking for syntax color highlighting? I haven't had the need for
> > a Ruby pretty print tool that arranged {} or do/ends, unlike what
> > is common with {} in C.
> 
> > If you don't need syntax highlighting, then you may want to check
> > out fancyverbatim.
> 
> Unfortunately, I'm looking for syntax highlighting and not for
> keywordis/blocks alignment. I want something that automatically prints
> ruby keywords in boldface, comments in italics and so on.
> 
> Of course inside LaTeX documents, do you know a script that do that
> without writing it by myself? 
 

The only thing I can think of is to use vim's conversion to html,
then a html2latex converter. I have not done the latter recently, but
vim does a good job and supports ruby.

-- 
Jim Freeze
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