[OT] Re: Redesign of dlang.org

[w0rp via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 29 July 2014 at 08:27:40 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> Am 29.07.2014 00:54, schrieb w0rp:
>> On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 22:38:10 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
>>>> I'll look at playing with the style of the documentation 
>>>> pages some more
>>>> another evening. I've had a few ideas for improvements, and 
>>>> I obviously
>>>> still need to include syntax highlighting. Is this the 
>>>> library which is
>>>> being used on the live site now for that?
>>>>
>>>> https://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/
>>>
>>> That plus some modifications to add D support. But my plan 
>>> was to use
>>> server side highlighting using Brian Schott's lexer in the 
>>> future.
>>
>> That's probably a good call. Were you thinking of discovering 
>> <code>
>> blocks in pages and running the lexer on them to produce the 
>> formatted
>> output?
>
> The other way around. DDOX and the Markdown processor would 
> directly call the syntax highlighter on code sections they 
> encounter. The result would then directly be written to the 
> output range.

Sounds good to me. This is starting to remind me of Inception. A
D website running on vibe.d which invokes a D compiler to produce
D documentation which produces syntax highlighting for D code
blocks using a D lexer.