source-highlight on webservers ? CGI ?

[Matthias Pospiech]

Hello,
I am totally new to this project. I want to have a software that can do decent
source-highlighting of LaTeX Code in Websites. I currently use Geshi
(http://www.pospiech.eu/latex/latex-syntaxhighlighting-in-webseiten/)
but the results are dissapointing and the abilities of gehsi too limited.

Therefore I would like to know if I can use source-highlight for this task. I
would be necessary that it can run as a CGI module or similar, since I have
no root access and the Provider will not install any software for me.

If this is possible, the next question would be if there are plugins available
for CMS systems (I only found Twiki). I use wordpress on my website which is
based on php.

Thanks for any hints
Matthias

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[Lorenzo Bettini]

Matthias Pospiech wrote:
> Hello,

Hi Matthias!

> I am totally new to this project. I want to have a software that can do decent
> source-highlighting of LaTeX Code in Websites. I currently use Geshi
> (http://www.pospiech.eu/latex/latex-syntaxhighlighting-in-webseiten/)
> but the results are dissapointing and the abilities of gehsi too limited.
>
> Therefore I would like to know if I can use source-highlight for this task. I
> would be necessary that it can run as a CGI module or similar, since I have
> no root access and the Provider will not install any software for me.
>

yes, source-highlight can be run as a cgi script, and indeed, when you
compile it, it will also create a cgi executable (called
source-highlight-cgi) that is taking parameters passed on the url and
convert it in command line paramenters:

http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/source-highlight.html#Related-Software-and-Links

I haven't tested it myself, but it should work smoothly

when you run configure, you may want to set

  --enable-input-chroot=DIR     change the root input dir

(which I now realized it's not documented in the manual), so that in the
URL you won't have to specify the whole absolute path to your files

> If this is possible, the next question would be if there are plugins available
> for CMS systems (I only found Twiki). I use wordpress on my website which is
> based on php.

I know of a guy that's working on that but he hasn't got anything ready
yet...  you mean twiki has support for source-highlight?

please let me know if you know additional help for the cgi stuff, I'll
be more than happy to help you on that.

Remember that you'll have to build the cgi executable in a "static" way,
i.e., with all the libraries in it.  Again, let me know if you need more
instructions on this.

hope to hear from you soon
cheers
        Lorenzo

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[Andy Buckley-2]

Matthias Pospiech wrote:
> Hello,
> I am totally new to this project. I want to have a software that can do decent
> source-highlighting of LaTeX Code in Websites. I currently use Geshi
> (http://www.pospiech.eu/latex/latex-syntaxhighlighting-in-webseiten/)
> but the results are dissapointing and the abilities of gehsi too limited.
>
> Therefore I would like to know if I can use source-highlight for this task. I
> would be necessary that it can run as a CGI module or similar, since I have
> no root access and the Provider will not install any software for me.

I wrote a Python wrapper for source-highlight which can be used as an Apache
filter, which might be useful to people with root access (or at least config
access to their web server). It can probably be easily rewritten to be useable
as a CGI, but I haven't tried: I'd be interested in porting that into my
version if someone did it.

Anyway, you can find the script here:
http://www.insectnation.org/projects/filter-src-highlight

Andy

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