Google Code Prettify
September 10th, 2007
I just installed google-code-prettify. It only takes a few minutes and the results are really cool:
import java.util.*;
public class Foo {
private String firstName;
public Foo(String firstName) {
this.firstName = firstName;
// some other junk
}
/**
* Comment here.
*/
public int getSomething() { ... }
}
Thank you again, Google.
I used to use Google code prettify as well and it worked pretty well. I switched to a new theme not too long ago and somehow the styles in the theme were incompatible with the styles in prettify. I spent a while (well, ok only a short while) trying to track down the problem and soon became lazy and bored. I ultimately switched to using SyntaxHighlighter which I think looks very nice, maybe even better than Google code prettify.
I don’t know if you’re using prettify directly but you might also enjoy using it through a WordPress plugin: http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/google-code-prettify-for-wordpress/.
I’m using it directly, since I pretty much wrote (copied WordPress default and then made massive edits to) my own custom theme anyway. Not to say my approach is best…the plugin looks easier and less invasive.