Re: [docbook-apps] Syntax highlighting

[davep <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

On 06/12/13 21:53, Norman Walsh wrote:
> Hello world,
>
> A fair bit of effort in the DocBook stylesheets goes into parsing,
> decomposing, annotating, and recomposing program listings for the
> purpose of adding line numbers to them. There's also a bunch of work
> that goes into syntax highlighting them.
>
> Occasionally, this takes a *long* time.
>
> It appears that modern systems do this in the JavaScript layer on the
> client. They also use tables to render line numbers.
>
> I'm tempted to move in this direction. Comments?


No problem with line numbers. I guess it's the outcome we want
rather than how it is done?
  Would that work with insertions too? E.g. lines with (6) etc
which are referred to in commentary?

> As long as I'm airing dirty laundry, I'm also tempted to abandon the
> XSL stylesheets and work instead on a purpose-built HTML+CSS rendering
> for printing.

I can see you getting 80% with html and CSS...
My penneth says you'll fall over on the 20% so I'm -1 on this.
  Do you believe you can do it?
What of re-ordering, toc etc?

> I should say that this note is particularly about the XSLT 2.0
> stylesheets that I've been working on, not the "standard" ones.
>
>                                          Be seeing you,
>                                            norm
  Understood.


regards

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