Tuesday 30 September 2014

finally, syntax highlighter working with live writer, a Mac and blogger

I’ve been on struggle street getting the syntax highlighter working.  I’ve only seen as far as I have by standing on the blogs of giants! 

http://www.craftyfella.com/2010/01/syntax-highlighting-with-blogger-engine.html this was great for the tip on modifying the theme of the blogger blog.

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Then, the final piece was NOT using Rich Hewlett’s syntax highlighter, as this has some issues with the blogger / livewriter combo.  I could not get his plugin to work.  It seems to wrap the code in different names / tags, not the standard ones that the legend Alex Gorbachev hosts and develops.

So, when inserting the source code, use

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https://sourcecodeplugin.codeplex.com/releases/view/25596

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Finally, my source code looks good.

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