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From: murphy <murphy@cYcnus.de>
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Subject: Poignant Guide: highlighting with CodeRay instead?
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hi why!

Well, I tested replacing "Syntax" with "CodeRay", my highlighting lib 
in-development.

The rubyforge website is here:
   http://rubyforge.org/projects/coderay/

Syntax does a good job, and maybe you should not change a running higlighter. 
But I think CodeRay could be more suitable for the Guide.

Improvements would be:
- more highlighting (eg. code inside strings)
- more different token colors :D
- 25% faster compiling (at least on my system)
- bugfixes (syntax may crash on some code)
- hints (if you move the cursor over a string, it says "String" etc.)
- line numbers (if you want them)
in the future:
- highlighting for irb output
- code-bits (eg. get \n highlighted as a char even outside a string)
- whatever you want for the Guide, as CodeRay is in-development ;)

The main drawback is that it is not released yet; documentation is incomplete, 
interface may change, etc. I don't recommend for anyone to rely on it before 
version 1.x - syntax highlighting can be a security issue for websites.

Anyway, you can take look at the output:

   http://ruby.cycnus.de/guide/chapter-4.html

or the website:

   http://rd.cYcnus.de/coderay

and think about using it for the Guide in the future.

hope you like it!
[murphy]
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