Monday, January 09, 2012
Syntax Highlighting Here
One of the reasons I took a long hiatus at this blog was because I learned how to do syntax highlighting in my posts and it was such a laborious process that I quickly tired of it because posting became such a daunting task.
But scripts are supposed to make daunting tasks more manageable, possibly even eliminating the daunt altogether. That's the first time I've ever used "daunt" as a noun like that. Probably not good English.
If you've ever looked at ESTK's preferences, you'll see that it offers about a million syntax highlighting controls. There's no way I want to duplicate that lot. My sights are set much lower. If I can highlight reserved words in blue, strings in red, and comments in green, I'll be happy.
The interesting thing is that I've already solved this problem in InDesign itself. When I want to showJS code in an InDesign document, I use a paragraph style with a bunch of GREP styles. I can't do that here, but perhaps I can use similar GREPs to get the right tags around the right text to achieve the desired effect.
And with that, the thought occurs that perhaps I can write a script that pulls the GREP search values out of the paragraph style so I don't have to maintain them in more than one place. Sounds like a fun project. Let's give it a shot.
More to come ...
# posted by Dave Saunders @ 9:10 AM 
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Good to see you show up on my RSS feed again Dave.
Why not use SyntaxHighlighter for your posts, as detailed here?
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Why not use SyntaxHighlighter for your posts, as detailed here?
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