Re: Wiki: syntax highlight

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 7, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Mar 7, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On Mar 7, 2012, at 8:03 AM, Fredrik Lingvall wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 03/07/12 13:47, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>>>> On Mar 7, 2012, at 2:53 AM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> Is there chance we could have this extension installed in the wiki
>>>>>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi
>>>>>> It is for syntax highlight and it highlights matlab code (guess a
>>>>>> MediaWiki expert could use gedit conf file to produce Octave
>>>>>> highlighting)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It will considerable increase the visual appeal of the tutorial I am
>>>>>> writing in the wiki.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thank you
>>>>> 
>>>>> I rather like having code placed in a colored box. Can this highlighting 
>>>>> be combined with that ?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ben
>>>> 
>>>> You can replace,
>>>> 
>>>> $css[] = "\tline-height: normal; border: 0px none white;";
>>>> 
>>>> with
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> $css[] = "\tline-height: normal; border: 1px dashed #2f6fab;";
>>>> 
>>>> in the SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi.class.php file to get a dashed border around 
>>>> the code. I have not figured out how to get the light gray background 
>>>> that<pre>  ...</pre>  has though.
>>>> 
>>>> /Fredrik
>>> 
>>> Thanks. The box is sufficient, I think.
>>> 
>>> Ben
>> 
>> I think for the general public and the visual appeal, the box is
>> highly defficient. It maybe an issue with the brownser, but here
>> </pre> shows a tiny fonrt, very thin and grey and is very hard to
>> read.
> 
> I was referring to adding a dotted box around the highlighted code produced 
> by the syntaxhighlight extension.
> 
> Meaning ...
> 
> (1) modify the syntaxhighlight  extension to box the highlighed code by 
> replacing (-) with (+)
> 
>       - $css[] = "\tline-height: normal; border: 0px none white;";
> 
>       + $css[] = "\tline-height: normal; border: 1px dashed #2f6fab;";
> 
> (2) Install the syntaxhighlight  extension.
> 
> Ben

Moving to the maintainers mail-list.

Joanna / others,

        Thoughts on the suggesting to add syntax highlighting to Octave code in 
the wiki ?

Ben