TEXT-VIMCOLOR(1p)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					 TEXT-VIMCOLOR(1p)

NAME

       text-vimcolor - command-line program to syntax color a file in HTML, XML or PDF

SYNOPSIS

	  $ text-vimcolor --format html --full-page FILENAME > OUTPUT.html
	  $ text-vimcolor --format xml FILENAME > OUTPUT.xml
	  $ text-vimcolor --format pdf FILENAME --output OUTPUT.pdf

DESCRIPTION

       This program uses the Vim text editor to highlight text according to its syntax, and turn the highlighting into HTML, XML or PDF output.
       It works with any file type which Vim itself can highlight.  Usually Vim will be able to autodetect the file format based on the filename
       (and sometimes the contents of the file).

       Exactly one filename should be given on the command line to name the input file.  If none is given input will instead be read from stdin
       (the standard input).

       If Vim can't guess the file type automatically, it can be specified explicitly using the "--filetype" option.  For example:

	  $ text-vimcolor --format html --filetype prolog foo.pl > foo.html

       This program is a command line interface to the Perl module Text::VimColor.

OPTIONS

       The following options are understood:

       --help
	   Show a summary of the usage, including a list of options.

       --debug
	   Turns on debugging in the underlying Perl module.  This makes it print the command used to run Vim.

       --filetype file-type
	   Set the type of the file explicitly.  The file-type argument should be something which Vim will recognise when set with its "filetype"
	   option.  Examples are "perl", "cpp" (for C++) and "sh" (for Unix shell scripts).  These names are case sensitive, and should usually be
	   all-lowercase.

       --format output-format
	   The output format to generate.  Must be one of the following:

	   html
	       Generate XHTML output, with text marked with "<span>" elements with "class" attributes.	A CSS stylesheet should be used to define
	       the coloring, etc., for the output.  See the "--full-page" option below.

	   xml Output is in a simple XML vocabulary.  This can then be used by other software to do further transformations (e.g., using XSLT).

	   pdf XML output is generated and fed to the FOP XSL-FO processor, with an appropriate XSL style sheet.  The stylesheet uses XSLT to
	       transform the normal XML output into XSL-FO, which is then rendered to PDF.  For this to work, the command "fop" must be available.
	       An output file must be specified with "--output" with this format.

	   Full details of the HTML and XML output formats can be found in the documentation for Text::VimColor.

       --output output-filename
	   Specifies the name of the output file (which will end up containing either HTML, XML or PDF).  If this option is omitted, the output
	   will be sent to stdout (the standard output).  This option is required when the output format is PDF (because of limitations in FOP).

       --full-page
	   When the output format is HTML, this option will make the output a complete HTML page, rather than just a fragment of HTML.	A CSS
	   stylesheet will be inserted inline into the output, so the output will be useable as it is.

       --no-inline-stylesheet
	   When the output format is HTML and "--fullpage" is given, a stylesheet is normally inserted in-line in the output file.  If this option
	   is given it will instead be referenced with a "<link>" element.

       --let name=value
	   When Vim is run the value of name will be set to value using Vim's "let" command.  More than one of these options can be set.  The
	   value is not quoted or escaped in any way, so it can be an expression.  These settings take precedence over "--unlet" options.

	   This option corresponds to the "vim_let" setting and method in the Perl module.

       --unlet name
	   Prevent the value of name being set with Vim's "let" command.  This can be used to turn off default settings.

	   This option corresponds to the "vim_let" setting and method in the Perl module, when used with a value of "undef".

BUGS

       o   The PDF output option often doesn't work, because it is dependent on FOP, which often doesn't work.	This is also why it is mind
	   numbingly slow.

       o   FOP (0.20.3) seems to ignore the "background-color" property on "<fo:inline>".  If that's what it's meant to do, how do you set the
	   background color on part of a line?

AUTHOR

       Geoff Richards <qef@laxan.com>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2002-2006, Geoff Richards.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl.

perl v5.10.1							    2006-02-19							 TEXT-VIMCOLOR(1p)