[uf-discuss] Formating Code

[Kevin Lawver]

I remember jEdit doing something similar as well.

Robert Bachmann wrote:
> Edward O'Connor wrote:
> 
>>>Programming languages by definition have extremely well-defined
>>>semantics, so it isn't necessary to mark up variables and so on in
>>>blocks of code.
>>
>>
>>I often mark up variables and so on, for syntax highlighting purposes.
>>For instance:
>>
>>[Example snipped]
> 
> 
> There are some tools which create modern HTML (i.e: HTML with <span
> class="comment" instead of <font color=green>) listings of source code.
> 
> Two programs I'm aware of are GNU Source-highlight[1] and Highlight[2].
> Looking at the class names they use for their generated listings and
> documenting it on the background research pages of might be useful.
> 
> There are some sites which deal with code listings:
> - http://koders.com/ - code search engine
> - http://www.bytemycode.com/ - community code posting site
> 
> Looking at those when doing the background research might be beneficial.
> We might even want to invite their operators to participate into this
> discussion.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
>  Robert