Re: [docbook-apps] Syntax highlighting

[David Cramer <david@thingbag.net>]

On 12/09/2013 08:10 AM, Shaun McCance wrote:
> Yelp uses jQuery.Syntax for syntax highlighting, which we've been pretty
> happy with. I've had no problems with it clobbering markup inside code
> blocks, which is something I deal with pretty often.

That looks interesting. I experimented by adding some markup to an
example in the distribution (ex.python.html). Adding <b> was ignored
(isn't clobbered but doesn't make text bold either). When I added <img
src="1.png"/> it broke the highlighting. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong?

> http://www.codeotaku.com/projects/jquery-syntax/index.en
> 
> Yelp does still do line numbers is XSLT though. Also:
> 
>> One caveat about using tables for line numbers. It generally makes it
>> impossible to cut and paste the code sample without getting all the line
>> numbers. One thing I like about the syntax highlighter above is that
>> when you click on the code sample, the callouts go away and are not copied.
> 
> Yelp puts the line numbers in a single pre that is float: left (or right
> in RTL) next to the code block. It's the best solution I've found.

The jquery-syntax examples have line numbers (added by the js). Is there
a reason not to use that functionality?

David