Release Digest: GNU, April 25, 2004

GNU Source-highlight 1.9

GNU Source-highlight 1.9 has been released. It is available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/source-highlight/ and mirrors of that site (see list of mirror sites at http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html).

GNU Source-highlight, given a source file, produces a document with syntax highlighting.

At the moment this package can handle

• Java
• Javascript
• C/C++
• Prolog
• Perl
• Php3
• Python
• Flex
• ChangeLog
• Ruby
• Lua new
• Caml new
• Sml new

as source languages, and

HTML
XHTML
ANSI color escape sequences (new)

as output format.

Version 1.9

• --no-doc option added to cancel the --doc option even if it is implied (e.g., when css is given) (as suggested by Keith Lea and Grant McLean)
• deal with r correctly (reported by barrett@9hells.org)
• added scanner for language LUA (thanks to Marc Côté)
• added scanner for CAML and SML (with the help of Jean-Baptiste Rouquier

  and James Riely)

• fixed a bug in C++ scanner concerning tabs after # (reported by Don Stauffer).
• If not specified, the source language will be guessed from the input file extension.
• Added src-hilite-lesspipe.sh a script that can be used with less in order to higlight the files processed with less (suggested by Konstantine Serebriany)
• fixed a bug in perl scanning when " is used in regular expressions (reported by Geir Nilsen)
• html attribute values are generated in quotes (bug fixed by Patrick Wagstrom)
• can generate anchors for line numbers (thanks to Oliver Fischer)

Visit the Source-highlight home page at http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite

Anonymous CVS access is also available. Please visit http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/src-highlite/ where you can find detailed descriptions of how to access the CVS (read-only). Release-candidate versions are available through CVS.

Bug reports should go to bug-source-highlight@gnu.org.

The following mailing lists are available:

• help-source-highlight@gnu.org, for generic discussions about the program and for asking for help about it (open mailing list), http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-source-highlight
• info-source-highlight@gnu.org, for receiving information about new releases and features (read-only mailing list), http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-source-highlight

if you want to subscribe to a mailing list just go to the URL and follow the instructions, or send me an e-mail and I'll subscribe you.

cheers

Lorenzo