Re: Colorizing source code in Info manuals

[Cecilio Pardo]

On 06/12/2024 8:38, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I'm not sure "is not going to add features like color to the Info
> format" is correct.  Texinfo does support syntax-highlighting of code
> snippets in HTML output (for now as an experimental feature), so it is
> not outlandish to assume something similar can be done for the Info
> format as well.

It says so in the texinfo manual:

     Can the Info format be extended to support fonts, colors or
     reflowable text?

     [...]

     Info's core purpose is to display documentation on text terminals.
     If you want more, you are recommended to use the HTML output from
     ‘texi2any’ instead.

Maybe they can add a 'subformat'.

> I think this should be discussed with the Texinfo developers, not
> here.  I can think about at least two possible ways of implementing
> this in Texinfo:
>
>   . makeinfo could mark the code blocks with special markers, similar
>     to what it already does with image specs and indices
>   . makeinfo could produce ANSI color escape sequences in the Info
>     output, driven by the same syntax-highlighting machinery already
>     used for HTML

I'll take a look at what it does with images and take it to them. Will 
try to include a patch, but I can't really perl.