Re: [Savannah-help-public] New feature of source-highlite planned?

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

We're not related to the source-highlight people (just check the name
of this mailing list ;)).

-- 
Sylvain

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 06:35:51AM +0200, Alexander Koeppe wrote:
> Dear developers,
> 
> our Perl-community is developing a fast board written in Perl.
> For highlighting issues we're using source-highlight.
> 
> But we got some compatibility problems with source-highlight and a
> static HTML table based design.
> 
> We're embedding the highlighted code directly into the tables. When some
> lines are very long, the page becomes as long as the longest code line is.
> We were trying to leave the <pre><tt> Tag at the beginning and at the
> end and for newlines <br /> but then tabs won't be visibile any more
> cause of collapsing the white spaces by the browser.
> 
> The CSS Option white-space:pre-wrap; solves this problem at the
> browser-side. But it's an CSS2.1 feature an is only implemented in the
> Opera 8.x+ browser.
> 
> I wasted very much time to find a fast and performant way to solve this
> with manipulating the HTML-output without many success.
> 
> I though maybe it's the best way to expand source-highlight with an new
> option that makes using &nbsp; and <br /> instead of <pre><tt>.
> 
> In conclusion...
> Is a feature planned like this? Is it possible that I try to implement
> it? I hav'nt worked on a opensource project yet.
> 
> With kind regards