Re: Java pretty printing in/with DocBook

[David Megginson <ak117@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

W. Eliot Kimber writes:

 > It would certainly be possible to write DSSSL functions that parse
 > the Java source and do the formatting. My first approach would be
 > to see if there's an emacs mode for Java (there must be) and see if
 > I could use that as the base (as emacs is a lisp application).  Or
 > maybe there's already lisp or scheme code for doing Java parsing
 > out there?

There is a slightly different, quick-and-dirty solution: you load each
file into Emacs, then use `ps-print-buffer-with-faces' to save the
highlighted document into a Postscript file.  Emacs can run in batch
mode, so the whole process could be automated.


All the best,


David

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