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Syntax coloring your code samples in the blog entries

Posted : May 13, 2004 at 12:58 pm [America/Los_Angeles]

Here’s the style that I apply to my <pre> tags to display code samples:

pre
{
font: normal 9pt courier, sans-serif;
margin-left: 50px;
margin-right: 50px;
border: 1px solid #e7651a;
border-left: 1px solid #e7651a;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 10px;
background-color: #FFFFCC;
}

However, putting code samples within <pre> tags was not helping too much from a readability standpoint as the sample below shows:

/*
* $RCSfile: Main.java,v $
*/
package com.cisco.helloworld;

/**
 * Class description goes here.
 *
 * @author $Author: anasharm $
 * @version $Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2004/04/08 01:35:35 $
 */
public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        HelloProvider hp = new HelloProvider();
        WorldProvider wp = new WorldProvider();
        String hello = hp.getHello();
        String world = wp.getWorld();
        System.out.println(hello + ", " + world);
    }
}

Thanks to this site, the output is much prettier now:

/*
* $RCSfile: Main.java,v $
*/
package com.cisco.helloworld;

/**
 * Class description goes here.
 *
 * @author $Author: anasharm $
 * @version $Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2004/04/08 01:35:35 $
 */
public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        HelloProvider hp = new HelloProvider();
        WorldProvider wp = new WorldProvider();

        String hello = hp.getHello();
        String world = wp.getWorld();

        System.out.println(hello + ", " + world);

    }
}

I know of another open-source software called GNU source highlight which does the same, although they do not have an online tool that one could use to do an on-the-fly conversion. However, it’s output is much better and it even has support for Python! Here’s the same code converted into HTML using source-highlight:

/*
* $RCSfile: Main.java,v $
*/
package com.cisco.helloworld;

/**
 * Class description goes here.
 *
 * @author $Author: anasharm $
 * @version $Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2004/04/08 01:35:35 $
 */

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        HelloProvider hp = new HelloProvider();
        WorldProvider wp = new WorldProvider();

        String hello = hp.getHello();
        String world = wp.getWorld();

        System.out.println(hello + “, “ + world);

    }
}

Do you know a better way of doing this? How about support for PLSQL?

- Anand

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