Re: [Bug-gsl] Syntax highlighting for the site

[Patrick Alken]

Ok thanks I will take a look at it

On 02/25/2017 12:30 PM, Liam Healy wrote:
> Sphinx http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/  is quite nice, has very
> good web support, and seems to be widely used now (e.g., the Linux
> kernel is moving over to it).
>
> Liam
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Patrick Alken <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
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>     The GSL manual is written in texinfo, which is nice since it
>     allows us to easily make versions in html,ps,pdf,ascii and a few
>     other formats from the same master file. Unfortunately as you note
>     the html version isn't very advanced. I'd be open to explore
>     converting the manual to some other system, but I don't know of
>     any other documentation system which has all the capabilities of
>     texinfo and also has better html support.
>
>     Patrick
>
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>     On 02/22/2017 04:27 AM, Hastur Hastur wrote:
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>         Not real a bug, but an exigency nowadays.
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>         What about to introduce on the site some sort of syntax
>         highlighting,
>         e.g. https://highlightjs.org/ or better ?
>
>
>         To make as much as possible pleasing and attractive the GNU
>         world to the
>         most wide audience we can.
>
>         Nowadays each good IDE allows folding, syntax highlighting and
>         online
>         help...
>
>         meanwhile the *look* of those pages is so vintage (note I
>         belong to that
>         generation).
>
>
>         :-)
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>
>         Cheers,
>
>         Hastur
>
>
>         ps> I found no other e-mail address on the manual page
>
>         https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/
>         <https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/>
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