Low level syntax highlighting tools?

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I'll confess I didn't research this deeply, in hopes that someone
knows of a library and can point me right at it.

Are there any syntax gems out there that'll spit back simple strings
and color values,
something like:

[["def foo\n", "ccffcc"], [" bar()\n", "ffffff" ], ["end", "ccffcc"]]

If such a tool exists, I can rejoice, because it'd allow me to build
an awsum Prawn based presentation builder.

-greg

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2008/10/18 Gregory Brown :

I'll confess I didn't research this deeply, in hopes that someone
knows of a library and can point me right at it.

Are there any syntax gems out there that'll spit back simple strings
and color values,
something like:

[["def foo\n", "ccffcc"], [" bar()\n", "ffffff" ], ["end", "ccffcc"]]

I guess no, but if you're using a syntax-colorizing, I think the
thing to do is using the scanner/tokenizer part, that will yield you
tokens for a specified language, and then you just have to create
your own class of Encoder/Converter that will consume tokens
and generate what you need, here an array like you want. It should
be easy, for example, with CodeRay [1] : write your encoder, and
don't use the html encoder.

If such a tool exists, I can rejoice, because it'd allow me to build
an awsum Prawn based presentation builder.

Very interesting. I was also thinking of using Prawn to generate
slides.

   -- Jean-François.

[1] http://coderay.rubychan.de

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it seems like using Hpricot against one of the current highlighters would work - just skim out innerHTML/class pairs right?

a @ http://codeforpeople.com/

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On Oct 18, 2008, at 9:41 AM, Gregory Brown wrote:

I'll confess I didn't research this deeply, in hopes that someone
knows of a library and can point me right at it.

Are there any syntax gems out there that'll spit back simple strings
and color values,
something like:

[["def foo\n", "ccffcc"], [" bar()\n", "ffffff" ], ["end", "ccffcc"]]

If such a tool exists, I can rejoice, because it'd allow me to build
an awsum Prawn based presentation builder.

-greg

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2008/10/18 Gregory Brown :

I'll confess I didn't research this deeply, in hopes that someone
knows of a library and can point me right at it.

Are there any syntax gems out there that'll spit back simple strings
and color values,
something like:

[["def foo\n", "ccffcc"], [" bar()\n", "ffffff" ], ["end", "ccffcc"]]

I guess no, but if you're using a syntax-colorizing, I think the
thing to do is using the scanner/tokenizer part, that will yield you
tokens for a specified language, and then you just have to create
your own class of Encoder/Converter that will consume tokens
and generate what you need, here an array like you want. It should
be easy, for example, with CodeRay [1] : write your encoder, and
don't use the html encoder.

Cool, I'll look into this, thanks.

If such a tool exists, I can rejoice, because it'd allow me to build
an awsum Prawn based presentation builder.

Very interesting. I was also thinking of using Prawn to generate
slides.

This code is very old, but will eventually be replaced with modernized
Prawn code:

If you're thinking of working on this, you're welcome to fork this
repos so that we don't duplicate effort.

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On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Jean-François Trân <jftran@rubyfrance.org> wrote:

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Hmm... that's an interesting idea too. I'll take a quick look at how
easy it is to get under the hood of Code Ray, and if it seems
complicated, such a hack would probably do fine.

-greg

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On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:32 PM, ara.t.howard <ara.t.howard@gmail.com> wrote:

On Oct 18, 2008, at 9:41 AM, Gregory Brown wrote:

I'll confess I didn't research this deeply, in hopes that someone
knows of a library and can point me right at it.

Are there any syntax gems out there that'll spit back simple strings
and color values,
something like:

[["def foo\n", "ccffcc"], [" bar()\n", "ffffff" ], ["end", "ccffcc"]]

If such a tool exists, I can rejoice, because it'd allow me to build
an awsum Prawn based presentation builder.

-greg

it seems like using Hpricot against one of the current highlighters would
work - just skim out innerHTML/class pairs right?

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Technical Blaag at: http://blog.majesticseacreature.com | Non-tech
stuff at: http://metametta.blogspot.com