I have code written in any programming language. How can I "prettify" it (bold if, else etc.) to display on a website? Are there any good APIs to do that?
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4Could you specify, are you coding in an IDE? If so, they already have options to do that. For example, in Eclipse, you can choose a color scheme and make certain types of key words (like conditions) bold, italicized, etc. – rcplusplus Feb 25 '12 at 00:57
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Do you mean syntax highlighting in an editor, or for export as, say, HTML with the markup? – Kitsune Feb 25 '12 at 00:57
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No, I will have a website where this code should be prettified. – good_evening Feb 25 '12 at 00:57
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Do you at least have a hint what the language is? – Johan Kotlinski Feb 25 '12 at 01:05
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This question about Google Prettify should help you: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1667097/how-to-get-google-prettify-to-render-more-like-visual-studio – Renato Feb 25 '12 at 01:10
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But what I mean is, will the user give you a hint what the language is? Language detection is another topic – Johan Kotlinski Feb 25 '12 at 01:17
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Language detection could be pretty difficult. It would be better if the user specify it (like in [Notepad++](http://notepad-plus-plus.org/)). – Luiggi Mendoza Feb 25 '12 at 01:24
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Yes, user would tell me what language it would be. – good_evening Feb 25 '12 at 01:37
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There is Google's prettify which is widely used for such tasks (e.g. SO itself uses it for highlighting of code).
Google Code Prettify JavaScript library supports all C-like (Java, PHP, C#, etc), Bash-like, and XML-like languages without need to specify the language and has customizable styles via CSS.
Moreover, as i know, there is a lot of third-party styles for those languages that not supported officially.
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If you're talking about an auto-formatter, I've used PEAR's PHP Beautifer before.
Although you shouldn't really need a script to format your code for you...
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