[slf4j-dev] svn commit: r1321 - slf4j/trunk/slf4j-site/src/site/pages

Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen ravn at runjva.com
Sun Apr 26 12:27:43 CEST 2009


Ceki Gulcu skrev:
>
> Hello Thorbjoern,
>
> I am in favor of "code prettifiers" as long as they allow us to 
> emphasize, e.g. present in bold, selected parts of the code, but if 
> not, then I prefer ugly. :-)
>
> Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen wrote:
>> Ceki Gulcu skrev:
>>> Hello Thorbjørn,
>>>
>>> Do you intend to pursue this effort on coloring? As this revision 
>>> stands, I don't see the point... Put differently, it looks like a 
>>> lot of effort for a meager result. WDYT?
>>
>> Been busy with other things the last few days.
>>
>> Meager?  Don't think so!   And it was trivially simple to do with 
>> vim, so if it would make it more readable it is a benefit to the 
>> documentation.
>>
>> I was inspired by the way StackOverflow presents its code snippets, 
>> and it turns out they use Prettify:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/
>>
>> which uses Javascript.  Perhaps that would both be easier, simpler to 
>> maintain and ... well... prettier :)
>>
>
Please don't toppost.

I'll revert it for now, and come back to it later.  I found that Bruce 
Eckell uses it in his book Thinking in C++ so there is at least another 
author I can locate who use it :)



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