RE: [boost] Anyone Interested in a C++ to HTML pretty printer?

From: Reid Sweatman (drunkardswalk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-31 05:08:07

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> [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of 
> christopher diggins
> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 12:41 PM
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> Subject: [boost] Anyone Interested in a C++ to HTML pretty printer?
> 
> 
> I am nearly finished a public domain C++ to HTML tool with 
> syntax coloring. 
> This is primarily intended as a demonstration of the YARD 
> parser, but with 
> practicial applications. I am wondering if anyone in the 
> Boost community be 
> interested in using the tool for sprucing up the code 
> examples for the 
> documentation to their libraries?
> 
> The pretty printer recognizes and colors keywords, 
> identifiers, string 
> literal, character literals, number literals, macros and 
> comments. It does 
> so by using <span class="xxx"></span> tags around the 
> elements. This means 
> that italics / style / coloring can be controlled by a 
> separate CSS file.
> 
> There are some future enhancements which could be interesting 
> as well such 
> as:
> - automated hyper-linking of #include directives
> - javsascript open / close of code blocks { }
> 
> Anyone interested?

Sure, that sort of thing is always useful, when well done.  Have you
considered leveraging the codebase to a straight C++ formatter?  There
really isn't one out there that's up to the task.  I've been hacking GNU
Indent for years to get something that sort of handles C++ and has the
options I like; be nice to actually have a good free product out there
that's designed to handle C++ with a good spread of options.  If you had any
interest, I could send you my annotated option file for Indent (obviously, I
can't send the code, since it's copy-lefted).  But the option file would
show what's present (including some things that aren't in Indent's docs) and
what I thought worth adding.

Or not, if you prefer; I'm perfectly aware of the magnitude of such a piece
of code.  <g>

Reid