Hello Martin -
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:54 AM, Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Samuel, > Marc Maurer has done 95% of the work required to do > multi-programming language syntax highlighting in libabiword. The > advantage of using libabiword is that you get collaboration for free. It > is easy enough to embed this in your own canvas and hook up the controls > you need or want, just as we've done for Write. that sounds great! > Marc is a bit of a perfectionist so I'm not sure how usable "95%" of the > work is and whether it could be finished by simply using it and > providing bug reports as needed would be. Is this something the community could help with? I know myself and maybe another person or two who would be willing to help if it was clear what else needed to be done. yours, Bobby > Hopefully, Marc will chime in soon. > > Cheers > > Martin > > > On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 00:39 -0400, Samuel Klein wrote: >> There has been talk about expanding Pippy to support a variety of >> programming languages, perhaps as plugins; to add syntax highlighting; >> and general interest in seeing Develop proceed. Syntax highlighting >> in Write has been brought up as well. C and Javascript environments >> have been specifically highlighted, since C is used for a fair bit of >> code that we ship; but enthusiasts of Ruby and many other languages >> have considered providing an intro dev environment as a standalone >> activity, one per language. And HTML creation is possible in Write >> but without highlighting, and it is not obvious how to put this to >> good use. >> >> Finally, we now have activities for Etoys (Squeak), Scratch, and >> Turtle Art, but not yet a Logo activity; though a few people are >> working on the latter. >> >> Where are we with these developments? What plans are there to >> complete any of the above this year? What specific features should we >> schedule to support the above, and which is most important? >> >> SJ >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar mailing list >> Sugar@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > Sugar@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar