[FM Discuss] code highlighting

[adam]

yeah...interesting

in myosa you use a lot of images to show code..is that your preffered 
approach?

On 04/19/2011 06:14 PM, James Simmons wrote:
> Adam,
>
> I'd have to say I don't care for it.  It's one thing to have code
> highlighted in your editor.  It can help you spot errors.  On the
> printed page it doesn't work for me, especially since code has to be
> squeezed (re-wrapped) to fit on a narrow page and still be readable.
> On a web page I have the same issue.
>
> I spent many hours fixing up the code samples in MYOSA to work on the
> printed page, so my opinion on this may be stronger than others.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:48 AM, adam<adam at xs4all.nl>  wrote:
>> hi
>>
>> I have been experimenting a little with code highlighting...take a look at
>> this:
>> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/newscoop-cookbook2/_v/1.0/how-to-make-an-image-gallery/
>>
>>
>> the code blocks are a pre tag with class="prettyprint linenums"
>>
>> i'm still pondering how useful and 'pretty' it is...any thoughts?
>>
>> adam
>>
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