Re: Pygments-based syntax highlighting preprocessor

[Bento Borges Schirmer]

Dear Robin,

Em qua., 31 de jul. de 2024 às 10:31, Robin Haberkorn
<robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com> escreveu:
>
> Dear groffers,
>
> as one of the things coming out of my master thesis (written completely
> in ms with Groff), here is a small preprocessor for syntax highlighting
> code blocks based on Pygments:
>
> https://github.com/rhaberkorn/groff-tools#highlight-python

Interesting! might try your scripts in a few weeks.

I peeked around your repository. I noticed the hyperlinks to CSNOBOL4
are broken. what about SNOBOL4? is it cool? I understand it acts as a
filter? and is this BNF built into SNOBOL4? is it worth learning? or
do you think other languages/libraries/DSLs better solve the problems
it was designed for? how do you even learn it, like is there some
tutorial, manual or exercises about it? is it standardized, or are
there dozens of mutually exclusive dialects? is it compiled or
interpreted? are there optimizing implementations? can I call it
inside a C program as a subroutine? can it call C functions?

Also, please do share tricks, difficulties you faced, methodologies
and habits when writing your thesis in ms groff! I'm to follow similar
path some time.

Best regards,
Bento