How to implement auto-formatting of text (e.g. syntax highlighting of code snippets)?

[Inge Wallin]

On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 13:12:01 C. Boemann wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 July 2012 03:08:27 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > feature, not bug this time :)
> > 
> > As software developer you often have sourcecode snippets in your
> > documents or slides. Now, ideally that code snippet has some syntax
> > highlighting like you are used from your sourcecode editor.
> > 
> > Of course, that should be done automatically, like in the editor, after
> > you set the type of syntax.
> > 
> > How do I implement this in Calligra? As a shape? Or is it hopefully
> > possible to have some text style which updates the formatting of the text
> > it is set for on every text change? What about the linebreaks? Is there a
> > way to group a range of paragraphs? How eats entered series of
> > whitespaces (and all at begin of line), or are they just ignored in
> > normal styles? Is there something in ODF which supports that (besides
> > setting some calligra- namespaced attribute, which  to a text paragraph
> > in the storage format)?
> > 
> > Could it be similar to how either tables are embedded in the text flow,
> > or by how e.g. a multi-paragraph quote is done, by having three
> > paragraph styles for codes (begin paragraph style, middle paragraphs
> > style, end paragraph style), which Calligra is smart enough to detect
> > and then have a special handler which cares for the autoformatting?
> > For roundtrips with non-Calligra programs the text would be just saved as
> > normally formatted text, just with additional annotation that tells
> > Calligra to use autoformatting for it.
> > 
> > Anyone ever started on this?
> > 
> > I dream of being able to reuse Kate's syntax highlighting engine for
> > that, for maximal reuse and consistency :)
> > 
> > Is autoformatting perhaps also something to consider to add to ODF 1.3?
> > Any other autoformatting use cases besides syntax highlighting for
> > sourcecode?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Friedrich
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> 
> Hi
> 
> The textediting plugins seems like what you are after. We already have
> autocorrection, and it sounds like it's just an advanced autocorrection you
> want.
> 
> see plugins/textediting
> 
> As for odf support i somehow doubt it is relevant enough. Maybe we can just
> reuse the language tags. That is sort of what it is actually

I think the best way to just have textediting plugin like Boemann says and let 
the tool work on the selection. If you want auto-rehighlighting then perhaps 
using RDF metadata to mark the text could be used. No idea if there is an 
ontology for code but it wouldn't surprise me.


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