po plugin: updated todo / doc

[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / todo / syntax_highlighting.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn b/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn
index fec3f963f3320326e2170bc79796360cf4d1fd7d..bb1c84f026b76437f9227a4672428a50d2d4dede 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Ideally, it should 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).
 
 pages, as well as doing syntax highlighting as a preprocessor directive 
 (which is either passed the text, or reads it from a file).
 

-The big list of possibilities:
+## The big list of possibilities

 
 * [[plugins/contrib/highlightcode]] uses [[cpan Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate]],
   operates on whole source files only, has a few bugs (see
 
 * [[plugins/contrib/highlightcode]] uses [[cpan Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate]],
   operates on whole source files only, has a few bugs (see


@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ The big list of possibilities:
   support [[bugs/multiple_pages_with_same_name]].
 * [[sourcecode|todo/automatic_use_of_syntax_plugin_on_source_code_files/discussion]]
   also uses src-highlight, and operates on whole source files.
   support [[bugs/multiple_pages_with_same_name]].
 * [[sourcecode|todo/automatic_use_of_syntax_plugin_on_source_code_files/discussion]]
   also uses src-highlight, and operates on whole source files.

-  Has problems with [[bugs/multiple_pages_with_same_name]].
+  Updated to work with the fix for [[bugs/multiple_pages_with_same_name]].  Untested with files with no extension, e.g. `Makefile`.

 
 

-General problems:
+## General problems

 
 * Using non-perl syntax highlighting backends is slow. I'd prefer either
   using a perl module, or a multiple-backend solution that can use a perl
 
 * Using non-perl syntax highlighting backends is slow. I'd prefer either
   using a perl module, or a multiple-backend solution that can use a perl


@@ -60,3 +60,30 @@ General problems:
   Not clear how to fix this, as ikiwiki is very oriented toward file
   extensions. The workaround is to use a directive on a wiki page, pulling
   in the Makefile.
   Not clear how to fix this, as ikiwiki is very oriented toward file
   extensions. The workaround is to use a directive on a wiki page, pulling
   in the Makefile.

+
+## format directive
+
+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.
+
+       /* \[[!format mdwn """
+
+       This is a comment in my C file. You can use mdwn in here.
+
+       """]] */
+
+Note that this assumes that directives are expanded in source files.