Re: [platform-doc-dev] Improving code snippet visual effect in doc

[Michael Valenta <Michael_Valenta@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Olivier,

This makes sense to me. What I think
would be useful is the ability to convert a snipet of code from an editor
into HTML that uses classes to identify the syntactic elements (perhaps
using a Copy Special operation or something similar). Then the look could
be tailored through a CSS file. The ability to generate the CSS from the
Eclipse preferences would make tailoring the look easier.

Michael

Olivier Thomann/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
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Hi,

I noticed that all code snippets are in blue.
Personnally I prefer much more code snippets with syntax coloring. There
are tools like http://www.java2html.de/ that easily allows colors to be
used to improve the visual effect of the code snippets. java2html has a
CPL license, so it should not be a problem to use it for Eclipse doc. It
even has an Eclipse style.

This tool is just an example. I am sure there are other tools to achieve
the same result (get syntax coloring for code snippets).

I would like to propose to use such a tool to create the code snippets
inside Eclipse doc. Not for 3.3, but post 3.3.

Any comments?

Olivier
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