What is a word for converting code to version for publishing?
What is the word describing the process of converting source code, such as a C file or Java file, to a format appropriate for publishing on WWW site (usually HTML format with syntax highlighting, but also wiki format etc.)? How does github keep raw source files uploaded, but displays them to the browser as HTML representations with lines drawn, lines numbers, etc.?
I have problem finding right and understandable word.
- formatting is used to describe the process of improving the format of the source code, not converting to other format
- prettification is usually associated with processing the source code to make it more human-readable
- beautification – I’ve met with using that term as synonym to prettification.
To make code look like an IDE, Stack Overflow or GitHub was code highlighting or syntax highlighting (under editing).
The term I am familiar with is Pretty-printing which is where a source file is transformed for visual display such as on a web page or for a physical printout.
This typically involves several transformations (but not necessarily all of them)
- Formatting – adjustment of whitespace and other optional characters to make the structure of the code more uniform and readable (if the code is deemed to need formatting)
- Syntax highlighting – marking up of the source with font styles and colours (if the output medium supports it)
- Special formatting for the output, such as pagination for printed pages
Colloquially, the word formatting is also sometimes used to refer to the overall pretty printing
process.
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What’s your opinion?
The term I am familiar with is Pretty-printing which is where a source file is transformed for visual display such as on a web page or for a physical printout.
This typically involves several transformations (but not necessarily all of them)
- Formatting – adjustment of whitespace and other optional characters to make the structure of the code more uniform and readable (if the code is deemed to need formatting)
- Syntax highlighting – marking up of the source with font styles and colours (if the output medium supports it)
- Special formatting for the output, such as pagination for printed pages
Colloquially, the word formatting is also sometimes used to refer to the overall pretty printing
process.
As a coder I can tell you that source code can be on the server/client/server and when a browser requests it, the code is converted clientside. For a C++ developer I can tell you the code can be from an external site or an example of server/client/server. I mean it is decrypted by the computer to display the results of the code. When I say converted I mean it is and is not encrypted. As per the latest version of MS Windows, it is to generate a “crypto-data” of a code.
Markup, mentioned in another answer, is just a form of editing.
What does a compiler does when you type a code in a language and it changes the color of the function that they are in? Code-ins are usually green, software-objects can be purple depending on the language editor. We’re using the’simple’ approach for italicizing a word. One should also use bolding instead. This is not the correct word you are looking for either.
I’d go with conversion.
How do you mark up code using markup language?
To make code look like an IDE, Stack Overflow or GitHub was code highlighting or syntax highlighting (under editing).
