If you need to publish source code listing on the web, you probably have encountered the tedious work involved, such as code indenting and color coding keywords in HTML. I knew of at least one tool that can automate this for Lotusscript publishing, but have now found a more general tool that can handle all programming languages. It's called Highlight, and is available for all the major platforms.

Here's a demo. This is how source code used to look on this site:

Notice that there is no color coding. I also had to insert a lot of nbsp elements for the indenting. Using Highlight, I can now easily publish it like this:

00001 Sub Initialize
00002    Dim strCode As String
00003    strCode = |
00004    Dim strMessage as String
00005    strMessage = "I'm dynamic"
00006    msgbox strMessage | Execute( strCode )
00007 End Sub

Notice also the line numbers, I can even make anchors of them. There's a multitude of other color schemes too, here's one:

00001 Sub Initialize
00002    Dim strCode As String
00003    strCode = |
00004    Dim strMessage as String
00005    strMessage = "I'm dynamic"
00006    msgbox strMessage | Execute( strCode )
00007 End Sub

I will leave it to you to play with the other options. Finally, some instructions for Blogo users to publish output of the Highlight tool. The easiest thing to do is let Highlight generate HTML as output, and setting it up so that it creates the CSS styles inline. Then, open the output file, view the source and copy everything between the pre tags, including the pre tag itself. Next, open the HTML editor from the Blogo rich text editor and paste the code. Finally, publish your pretty code.

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