Vim has :TOhtml which exports an HTML version of the current buffer and
renders any syntax highlighting with CSS.  Emacs and the WebKit-based
editors (Atom, Sublime Text) probably have something similar.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:00 AM, chris burke <cbu...@jsoftware.com> wrote:

> The J6 export script should work fine in J8, so it could be ported as an
> addon. I think the reason why it had not been ported is because of the
> complex configuration code. However, the configs should now be put in a
> plain text file like the rest of the J8 configs, and the remaining code
> would be easy to port. BTW, the utility did use CSS for styling.
>
> I don't see any problem with using pandoc, in fact the joxygen addon
> already requires that.
>
> On 3 November 2015 at 06:41, John Baker <bakerj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Many years ago there was an HTML utility in J 6.x that rendered J code as
> > HTML.
> >
> > As I recall this utility did not use CSS which limited its utility and it
> > was eventually dropped. I am interested in converting  J code to HTML for
> > inclusion in blog posts.
> >
> > I built a special version of pandoc:
> >
> >
> >
> https://bakerjd99.wordpress.com/2012/09/20/pandoc-based-j-syntax-highlighting/
> >
> > That achieved this but I don't like using another programming language
> for
> > what is essentially a J utility.
> >
> > Has any recent work been done along these lines?
> >
> > --
> > John D. Baker
> > bakerj...@gmail.com
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