[libreoffice-users] Re: Including code example in documents

On 08/12/2013 09:04 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:

If none of the suggestions you have received already work for you.  You 
might want to look at Andrew Pitonyak's book [1]. It has syntax 
highlighted basic code.  I don't know if you can tell how he did by 
looking at the document though.

[1]  http://www.pitonyak.org/book/

Regards,  JIm

> I used NoteTab [free] and NotePad ++ as my first Windows programming and
> HTML editor.
>
> Having the extension to do the highlighting in Writer is a good idea
> though.
>
> If I remember correctly, for the Note. . .  editors you can find "add
> ons" that are specific to the programming code.  I have not tried them
> in a few years, but they were a real big aid to my early programming
> within the Windows environment.  I do not remember when I installed the
> first one, but it was in the early days of my having dial-up Internet
> access, or a little later.  I do not remember if I got online with Win
> 95 or 98 era. but I know I used them when I was using he "new" Windows
> version - XP.
>
> Would you tell us how large of a document these code samples will be in?
>
> Are you writing a programming guide type of documentation?
>
> Hopefully the RTF formatting option works.  Sometimes pictures of text
> do not work well, since the snapshot resolution and the print resolution
> could be very different.  I tend to have to make 600 DPI scanned images
> to get a decent "near 1 to 1 size" image when I print out a "best" print
> option.
>
> If you need to do the snapshot, I would run the image through a scaling
> option, with a edge smoothing "effect", to make the image in a large
> enough DPI and actual print size for your needs that actually look well.
>
> On 08/12/2013 09:13 AM, William Drago wrote:
> > I do this all the time using the syntax highlighter in Notepad++.
> >
> > If you don't have Notepad++ (my favorite code/text editor), get it
> > here: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
> >
> > Here's how to get syntax highlighted code into your LibreOffice
> > documents:
> >
> > 1: Open source file with Notepad++
> > 2: In Notepad++ click Plugins > NppExport > Export to RTF
> >
> > You will now have a syntax highlighted copy of your source file
> > however, it will be double spaced. To remove the extra spaces proceed
> > as follows:
> >
> > 1: With any editor, open the .rtf file you just created
> > 2: Search and replace "\par" with "\line"
> > 3: Save file
> >
> > Open the .rtf file with LibreOffice Writer, select all (CTRL-A), copy
> > & paste into your working document.
> >
> > This sounds like a bit of an ordeal, but I do this quite frequently,
> > and once you've done it a few times, it becomes very fast and easy.
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > -Bill
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 8/11/2013 9:22 PM, aihaike wrote:
> > > Hey Miguel,
> > >
> > > thank you for you reply.
> > > This the kind of macro I need but it does not seem to work with
> > > LibreOffice
> > > 4 unfortunately.
> > > I think I'm going to make a snapshot of my codes and include them  as a
> > > picture.
> > >           Éric.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > View this message in context:
> > > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Including-code-example-in-documents-tp4069680p4069685.html
> > >
> > > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.



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