Formatting code snippets for blogging on Blogger [closed]

Answer 1

I've created a blog post entry which explains how to add code syntax highlighting to blogger using the syntaxhighlighter 2.0

Here's my blog post:

http://www.craftyfella.com/2010/01/syntax-highlighting-with-blogger-engine.html

I hope it helps you guys.. I'm quite impressed with what it can do.

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Answer 2

I rolled my own in F# (see this question), but it still isn't perfect (I just do regexps, so I don't recognise classes or method names etc.).

Basically, from what I can tell, the blogger editor will sometimes eat your angle brackets if you switch between Compose and HTML mode. So you have to paste into HTML mode then save directly. (I may be wrong on this, just tried now and it seems to work - browser dependent?)

It's horrible when you have generics!

Answer 3

Easiest way to share code is with a public gist. Just write one up and paste in the embed code. Easy peasy.

http://gist.github.com

To address the search engine issue, one can use hidden div on the page as simple as:

<div style="display:none"> content </div>

Answer 4

Actually I had used (what else ;-) ) Vim for this: it has a 2html "plugin". See the docs here.

So as I edit my code, I just convert it to HTML and paste the results to Blogger's HTML editor.

Note: it's not so beautiful HTML (embeded css would be better), but it just works.

Oh: and it has syntax files for several languages which makes it pretty useful.