Forwarding to the list for interests sake, mainly for vim users.
----- Original Message ----- From: "LandSurveyor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 12:00 AM Subject: Re: pretty_printing > This issue has been solved! in a big way!! > (I hope I'm doing this right, replying to your email this way...I'm > new to this. Hope this makes its' way to the 'big screen') > > The entire issue [that I raised] regarding printing scripts with the > same syntax highlighting with which they were displayed in the Vim > editor turn out to be a Vim issue, and Vim solves it in an elegant, > rich way. By using the command, > > ":hardcopy" > > (from within the Vim editor) a printout of the current file [being > edited] is produced, with very rich colors, faithful to the > displayed syntax colors. Two companion :help 'modules' provide a > smorgasbord of options to apply to the desired hardcopy. They are: > > ":printoptions", and > ":printfont" > > Ask for ":help" with either of the two options listed above, and a > very clear and detailed file is offered in each case, from which to > draw examples and/or specific coding types. > > -----Original Message----- >>From: Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Sent: Sep 3, 2006 7:03 PM >>To: "Lowell H. Tackett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: pretty_printing >> >>> It had occured to me that the root of my lack of success is simply >>> that file >>> XYZ.py sits on my HD as a simple string of X's and O's, not as a >>> pretty, >>> colorful text repository. Only thru the magic of say, Vim, is the >>> display >>> converted to meaningful hues. Therefor, Vim somehow knows how to >>> detect each >>> of the discrete syntax types: comments, quotes, reserved words, >>> etc., and to >>> apply an appropriate color into its' display. >> >>No magic, the patterns are defined in the xxxx.vim files in the >>syntax >>folder. >>Each one defines a keyword/style and the regex that defines the >>terms. >> >>> It occured to me that it ought to be very simple to gain access to >>> those >>> syntax discrimnators, write a code script that creates a 'dye' for >>> each >>> syntax type, and pipe a print request thru such a file. >> >>Yes, not impossible, but not trivial either. >>The simplest way to generate the printed output is probably to >>create an intermediate html file and print that via a browser >>- possibly using the python browser module... >> >>Alan Gauld >>Author of the Learn to Program web site >>http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld >> > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
