[Help-source-highlight] GNU Source-highlight 2.0 Candidate Release

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Hi Everybody

for those who want to try this new release, here's an unofficila 
candidate release.

http://rap.dsi.unifi.it/~bettini/source-highlight-2.0-rc1.tar.gz

The huge novelty is that language specifications are read at run-time, 
so that new languages can be easily added dynamically (without 
recompiling the sources) by using a simple syntax (you don't have to 
learn flex anymore to add a new language).  It now depends on the Boost 
regex library (http://www.boost.org/) so you need to install this 
library (boost libraries are usually shipped with most distributions).

Here's, for instance, the definition of Java language

----------------  java.lang  ------------------------------
preproc = "import","package"

include "c_comment.lang"

include "number.lang"

string delim "\"" "\"" escape "\\"
string delim "'" "'"  escape "\\"

keyword = "abstract|assert|break|case|catch|class|const",
          "continue|default|do|else|extends|false|final",
          "finally|for|goto|if|implements|instanceof|interface"
keyword = "native|new|null|private|protected|public|return",
          "static|strictfp|super|switch|synchronized|throw",
          "throws|true|this|transient|try|volatile|while"

type = "int|byte|boolean|char|long|float|double|short|void"

include "symbols.lang"

cbracket = "{|}"

include "function.lang"
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I'd really appreciate some feedback! :-)

there's also a brand new texinfo manual, that also explains the syntax 
for language definitions.

many thanks in advance

cheers
        Lorenzo

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