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" "[email protected]"

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.