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

[Liam Healy]

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> wrote:

> 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.
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>> 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/
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