IBM Blog Template – Syntax Highlighter for Lotus Script
How often would we like to insert coloured code in our documents? I know it’s not that important but, first, it looks much nicer and, second, it’s much easy to understand a piece of source code when it is coloured. At least for me.
I played around with the new IBM Blog template. It gives you all you need to start to blog. As you can see in my blog, I sometimes post some code along with my articles. The code is automatically formatted.
Well, how could this be done in the IBM Blog template? First of all, there is no feature that will do the job out of the box. So I googled and found Alex Gorbatchevs “dp.SyntaxHighlighter“.
dp.SyntaxHighlighter is a free JavaScript tool for source code syntax highlighting. The script is meant to help a developer to post code snippets online with ease and without having to worry about applying format.
Here are the steps to inplement syntax highlighting into the IBM Blog template. At the end of this article you’ll find the necessary files in a zip archive. The archive contains shBrushLS.js. This file contains the keywords and classes for Lotus Script along with REGEXP for formatting Single-Line and Multi-Line comments.
Open the IBM Bolg template in Designer and add the .js files to the files section of the template. Add the .css file to the StyleSheet section of the template.
Now open the “HTML Templates” section in the navigation pane of your blog and click “Block Templates”
Add the following lines to the HTMLBottom template document
and these lines to the HTMLTop template document.
Do not forget to save the documents 😉
You can now start to post your code. You have to use a TEXTAREA tag as shown in the picture below. For mor informations on how to use the script, please take a look at the doumentation.
When you now open the article in the web, it should look like this …
I encountered a few problems when using the textarea tag. It seems that all CRLF are replaced by nothing and the code appears in one single line. So I had to modify the existing Lotus Script code in the DXLiveContentEngine lib of the template.
I added the following code to the “renderBlogItem” function ( starting at line 750 )
If rtitem.Type=1 Then
'is rich text
Set rtitem2=doc.getfirstitem("rt")
html=rtitem2.GetFormattedText(False,32767)
' --- added 05.11.2006, Ulrich Krause
Dim strHTML As String
strHTML = R5ReplaceSubstring ( Mid$( HTML ,Instr ( HTML,"
Maybe Steve Castledine can have a look at this.
DOWNLOAD sh.zip
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