[FM Discuss] code highlighting

[adam]

james...what do u think of this as another attempt:
http://booki.flossmanuals.net/newscoop-cookbook2/_full/

adam



On 04/19/2011 06:59 PM, James Simmons wrote:
> Adam,
>
> The code samples in the book uses<pre>  tags.  About the only images
> of code I can think of are images of IDEs, web pages showing code from
> Git, and I can't think of anything else.  The purpose of those images
> was not to show the code.  For sample code I used plain preformatted
> text.
>
> When I got my first proof copy of the book and the print was too small
> to be readable I had to reformat a ton of preformatted text, but I
> didn't need to replace a single image.
>
> For Git I used screen shots of web pages with code because I felt that
> they explained the subject better than any text I could replace them
> with could.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:21 AM, adam<adam at xs4all.nl>  wrote:
>> 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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