GeSHi Filter Module Authors: Vincent Filby Michael Hutchinson (http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/~mjh/contact) Damien Pitard GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter Author: Nigel McNie See the GeSHi homepage at: http://qbnz.com/highlighter A big part of this README is quoted from the GeSHi documentation written by Nigel McNie. DESCRIPTION ----------- The GeShiFilter Module provides ... tags to syntax-highlight code automatically. SETTINGS -------- Set the GeShi filter configuration options by navigating to: administer > settings > geshifilter *GeSHi settings* Code Container: -Use
 container
		-Use 
container -No container The Code Container has a fundamental effect on the layout of your code before you even begin to style. What is the Code Container? It's the bit of markup that goes around your code to contain it. By default your code is surrounded by a
, but you can also specify a 
. The
 header is the default. If you're familiar with HTML you'll
know that whitespace is rendered "as is" by a 
 element. The
advantage for you is that if you use 
 the whitespace you use will
appear pretty much exactly how it is in the source, and what's more
GeSHi won't have to add a whole lot of 
's and non-breaking spaces ( ) to your code to indent it. This saves you source code (and your valuable visitors waiting time and your bandwidth). But if you don't like
 or it looks stupid in your browser no matter
what styles you try to apply to it or something similar, you might want
to use a 
instead. A
will result in more source - GeSHi will have to insert whitespace markup - but in return you can wrap long lines of code that would otherwise have your browser's horizontal scrollbar appear. Of course with
you can *not* wrap lines if you please. The third choice specifies that the code should not be wrapped in anything at all. CSS classes: -Use in-line styles -Use CSS classes Using CSS to highlight your code instead of in-lining the styles is a definate bonus. Not only is it more compliant (the w3c is deprecating the style attribute in XHTML 2.0) but it results in far less outputted code - up to a whopping 50% saving - which makes a *huge* difference to those of us on modems! GeSHiFilter load geshi.css (in main directory) as default stylesheet but you can style anything you want in your own theme CSS file. Line Numbers: -Disable line numbers -Use normal line numbering -Use fancy line numbering GeSHi has the ability to add line numbers to your code. Line numbers are a great way to make your code look professional, especially if you use the fancy line numbers feature. Normal line numbers means you specify a style for them, and that style gets applied to all of them. Fancy line numbers means that you can specify a different style for each nth line number. Fancy number each: number Display a fancy number every n line numbers. Allow start param true|false Allow users to make the line numbers start at any number using start=number param. If you have not enabled line numbers, this will have no effect. This feature will break compliancy (however transitional compliancy remains). This is because the only widely supported way to change the start value for line numbers is by using the start="number" attribute of the
    tag. *In-line settings* Customize here some in-line styles. If you have not enabled in-line styles, this will have no effect. USAGE --- To post pieces of highlighted code, surround them with .... E.g. highlight actionscript code: ... if inline code is allowed in input format settings, you may also post highlighted inline code surrounding it with ... tags. E.g. highlight actionscript inline code: ... If you don't use type="language" param or specify an unsupported language, the code will be highlighted according to the default language set in the input format or will not be highlighted if "-DO NOT HIGHLIGHT-" is set as default language. LINE NUMBERS: When line numbers are enabled, you can specify the start line number using start="startLineNumber" param. E.g. highlight actionscript code and start line number at 5: ... DEPENDENCIES ------------ This module requires the third-party GeShi Syntax Highlighter http://qbnz.com/highlighter INSTALLATION ------------ See INSTALL.txt in this directory.