Syntax Highlighting

I like sharing code on forums and in my blog.
I would like to do that here on Artician!

But it's difficult when there's no syntax higlighing options...would it be possible to pass an argument in the code tag that says like lang=bash or lang=php?

I think that would be really useful!

It would be awesome. I would really love to use this in, say, my blog. I can only imagine though, how much work it must be to implement something like that.

The problem being the amount of languages. Do you limit the amount to only a few? Do you let users submit requests for other languages? How would you implement syntax highlighting for a languages you don't know?

These are all questions that need to be addressed with something like this, but I really do like the suggestion.

I think going with 5-6 basic ones is fine and then a default one.
More importantly - the code tags right now don't implement the PRE tag so the formatting is lost in terms of spacing.
My top picks would be XHTML,CSS,PHP,Bash,VB (which i suppose includes all visual studio languages), and then a default one that just addresses some basic concepts.

There are deffinately tools already available for this - but I am not sure if they can work with artician's custom framework - but I am sure some "reading" of them and some "oh that's a good idea - *copy & paste*" would work

You mean something like this? But different ones for php, css, etc....

I see that it's in code tags...but there's no syntax hilighing or spacing (indentation)....maybe I missed the point of the post...

No I know what you mean. The code tags are a start.

Heh, it's not as simply as copy and paste, but I wish it was. We will put it on our to-do list but it's low priority. Thanks for the suggestion though.