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Re: generic color support for `texinfo.tex`


From: Patrice Dumas
Subject: Re: generic color support for `texinfo.tex`
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 12:11:15 +0100

On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 08:11:25PM +0100, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> 
> 
> Thiking about it more, the main issue will be
> how to call Pygments, which is a Python library.
> Due to Python's interpreted nature, there is some
> overhead of startup, around 0.05s -- which is
> small, but starts to be noticeable if you have
> hundreds of code snippets. If you find a way
> to spawn a Python process and use the Python
> API, that problem will be eliminated -- and it
> will be trivial to implement equivalents to
> --line-range and --range-separator. However, I
> don't know about the implementation of makeinfo,
> so I have no idea whether this kind of thing
> is possible.

It would still be possible to do a script that uses the Pygments library
and has the same command line interface as source-highlight.  There is a
command line cript coming with Pygments, pygmentize but not with that
command line interface.

-- 
Pat



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