NAME
    IkiWiki::Plugin::syntax - Add syntax highlighting to ikiwiki

SYNOPSIS
    In any source page include the following:

        This is the example code 

        [[syntax language=perl text="""
        #!/usr/bin/perl
    
        print "Hello, world\n";
        """]]

        and this is my bash profile (using file type autodetection )

        [[syntax file="software/examples/mybash_profile" 
            description="My profile" ]]

    In order to facilitate the life to the administrator the plugin could
    create a html table with information about the engine capabilities.

    Use the directive "syntax" without any parameters as is:

        This is the syntax engine chart in this site:

        [[syntax ]]

DESCRIPTION
    This plugin adds syntax highlight capabilities to Ikiwiki using third
    party modules if they are installed.

    Those modules can be:

    * Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate
        Uses the Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate package, a port to Perl of
        the syntax highlight engine of the Kate text editor.

        Copyright (c) 2006 by Hans Jeuken, all rights reserved.

    * Text::VimColor
        This plugin uses the Text::VimColor module and the vim editor.

        Copyright 2002-2006, Geoff Richards.

    * IkiWiki::Plugin::syntax::Simple
        This is the default engine. It's a passtrough engine with line
        numering capability.

    and they can be selected at runtime with the "syntax_engine" parameter.
    In case of fail loading the module the plugin switch to use the simple
    engine.

    The module register a preprocessor directive named syntax.

  Parameters
    The syntax directive has the following parameters:

    language (optional)
        Name of the source language for select the correct plugin. If not
        defined the module will try to determine the appropiated value.

    description (optional)
        Text description for the html link

    text
        Source text for syntax highlighting. Mandatory if not exists the
        file parameter.

    file
        Ikiwiki page name as source text for syntax highlighting. The final
        html includes a link to it for direct download.

    linenumbers
        Enable the line numbers in the final html.

    bars
        Enable the bars feature. The final html text will be label with css
        tags on the odd lines.

    force_subpage
        Parameter for inline funcion to the source page

  CSS
    The package uses the following list of css tags:

    *

METHODS/SUBROUTINES
  checkconfig( )
    This method is called by IkiWiki main program and the plugin uses it for
    load global configuration values and initialize his internals.

  preprocess( )
    This method is called when the ikiwiki parser found a "syntax"
    directive. Without parameters the method show information about the
    external syntax parser.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT
    IkiWiki::Plugin::syntax uses the following global parameters:

    syntax_engine (optional)
        Set to a keyword for select the engine to use.

        Kate
            Uses the Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate as backend.

        Vim Uses the Text::VimColor as backend.

        Simple
            Uses the IkiWiki::Plugin::syntax::Simple as backend.

        If this parameter is omitted or the external module fails, the
        plugin switch to use the Simple engine.

    syntax_Kate (optional)
        Parameters to configure the engine (not implemented yet).

    syntax_Vim (optional)
        Parameters to configure the engine (not implemented yet).

    syntax_Simple (optional)
        Parameters to configure the engine (not implemented yet).

DEPENDENCIES
    The module needs the following perl packages:

    Module::Build::IkiWiki
        Extension to Module::Build for build and install ikiwiki plugins.

    Class::Accessor::Fast
    Test::More
    Exception::Class
    HTML::Entities
    HTML::Template
    URI::Escape

    And it recommends:

    Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate
    Text::VimColor

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
    Break the markdown indented chain. It can't be used between paragraphs
    of one list item. Use it after the item text.

    Please report any bugs or feature requests to the author.

AUTHOR
    "Víctor Moral" "victor@taquiones.net"

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 2008, "Víctor Moral".

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
    Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or any later
    version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
    WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
    Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
    with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
    51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.