From: Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>
Date: 2000-12-05T17:14:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6812] Re: Syntax highlighting in XEmacs

Well, my expectation that syntax colored HTML pages of program code would 
likely begin to occur as a natural step beyond the semi-common examples of 
screen shots of editors (or IDEs), such as,

    http://www.nedit.org/about/shots1.shtml and 
    http://www.vim.org/pics/gvim.color.perl.gif

has been borne out. I happened across an example at:

    http://wxPython.org/test7.py.html

Looking through some old software books, it seems to me that a minimalist 
approach of boldfacing keywords and italicizing comments might be a nice 
convention for easy-to-read on-line black-and-white documentation.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how easy or difficult it would be to 
process Ruby code samples into some form that would make it possible to 
produce documentation web pages showing Ruby code samples in one of 
several predefined syntax coloring/font schemes that would be available 
for users to select from?

Conrad Schneiker
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