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diff --git a/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn b/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn index b5d083ba5..87ba77cad 100644 --- a/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn @@ -1,9 +1,13 @@ There's been a lot of work on contrib syntax highlighting plugins. One should be picked and added to ikiwiki core. -Ideally, it should support both converting whole source files into wiki +We want to support both converting whole source files into wiki pages, as well as doing syntax highlighting as a preprocessor directive -(which is either passed the text, or reads it from a file). +(which is either passed the text, or reads it from a file). But, +the [[ikiwiki/directive/format]] directive makes this easy enough to +do if the plugin only supports whole source files. So, syntax plugins +do no really need their own preprocessor directive, unless it makes +things easier for the user. ## The big list of possibilities @@ -105,24 +109,12 @@ like this: return; } -## format directive +## format directive and comments -Rather than making syntax highlight plugins have to provide a preprocessor -directive as well as handling whole source files, perhaps a generic format -directive could be used: - - \[[!format pl """..."""]] - -That would run the text through the pl htmlizer, from the syntax hightligh -plugin. OTOH, if "rst" were given, it would run the text through the rst -htmlizer. So, more generic, allows mixing different types of markup on one -page, as well as syntax highlighting. Does require specifying the type of -format, instead of allowing it to be guessed (which some syntax highlighters -can do). (This directive is now implemented..) - -Hmm, this would also allow comments inside source files to have mdwn -embedded in them, without making the use of mdwn a special case, or needing -to postprocess the syntax highlighter output to find comments. +Hmm, the [[ikiwiki/directive/format]] directive would also allow comments +inside source files to have mdwn embedded in them, without making the use +of mdwn a special case, or needing to postprocess the syntax highlighter +output to find comments. /* \[[!format mdwn """ @@ -130,4 +122,5 @@ to postprocess the syntax highlighter output to find comments. """]] */ -Note that this assumes that directives are expanded in source files. +Note that this assumes that directives are expanded in source files, +which has its own set of problems. |