NAME IkiWiki::Plugin::syntax - Add syntax highlighting to ikiwiki SYNOPSIS In any source page include the following: This is the example code [[syntax language=perl text=""" #!/usr/bin/perl print "Hello, world\n"; """]] and this is my bash profile (using file type autodetection ) [[syntax file="software/examples/mybash_profile" description="My profile" ]] In order to facilitate the life to the administrator the plugin could create a html table with information about the engine capabilities. Use the directive "syntax" without any parameters as is: This is the syntax engine chart in this site: [[syntax ]] DESCRIPTION This plugin adds syntax highlight capabilities to Ikiwiki using third party modules if they are installed. Those modules can be: * Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate Uses the Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate package, a port to Perl of the syntax highlight engine of the Kate text editor. Copyright (c) 2006 by Hans Jeuken, all rights reserved. * Text::VimColor This plugin uses the Text::VimColor module and the vim editor. Copyright 2002-2006, Geoff Richards. * IkiWiki::Plugin::syntax::Simple This is the default engine. It's a passtrough engine with line numering capability. and they can be selected at runtime with the "syntax_engine" parameter. In case of fail loading the module the plugin switch to use the simple engine. The module register a preprocessor directive named syntax. Parameters The syntax directive has the following parameters: language (optional) Name of the source language for select the correct plugin. If not defined the module will try to determine the appropiated value. description (optional) Text description for the html link text Source text for syntax highlighting. Mandatory if not exists the file parameter. file Ikiwiki page name as source text for syntax highlighting. The final html includes a link to it for direct download. linenumbers Enable the line numbers in the final html. bars Enable the bars feature. The final html text will be label with css tags on the odd lines. force_subpage Parameter for inline funcion to the source page CSS The package uses the following list of css tags: * METHODS/SUBROUTINES checkconfig( ) This method is called by IkiWiki main program and the plugin uses it for load global configuration values and initialize his internals. preprocess( ) This method is called when the ikiwiki parser found a "syntax" directive. Without parameters the method show information about the external syntax parser. CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT IkiWiki::Plugin::syntax uses the following global parameters: syntax_engine (optional) Set to a keyword for select the engine to use. Kate Uses the Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate as backend. Vim Uses the Text::VimColor as backend. Simple Uses the IkiWiki::Plugin::syntax::Simple as backend. If this parameter is omitted or the external module fails, the plugin switch to use the Simple engine. syntax_Kate (optional) Parameters to configure the engine (not implemented yet). syntax_Vim (optional) Parameters to configure the engine (not implemented yet). syntax_Simple (optional) Parameters to configure the engine (not implemented yet). DEPENDENCIES The module needs the following perl packages: Module::Build::IkiWiki Extension to Module::Build for build and install ikiwiki plugins. Class::Accessor::Fast Test::More Exception::Class HTML::Entities HTML::Template URI::Escape And it recommends: Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate Text::VimColor BUGS AND LIMITATIONS Break the markdown indented chain. It can't be used between paragraphs of one list item. Use it after the item text. Please report any bugs or feature requests to the author. AUTHOR "Víctor Moral" "victor@taquiones.net" LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2008, "Víctor Moral". This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.