(flagged thread as OT as this is now orthogonal to the OP's question) On 8 July 2014 at 08:41, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote: | Side comment: At UseR last week, Yihui Xie sat with me and we | implemented a Fortran language engine for knitr. It looks like a Pascal | one may also be possible, and maybe even a BASIC (though that may need | variants for different platforms).
I am not so sure. If you look at what Yihui actually did (ie: enable Fortran support which R already had -- and you can actually _run_ the code) then you may see that Pascal and (gasp) Basic have a different status _as they cannot be used to extend R_. So where are talking "just typesetting". So read on. | This would allow vignettes to | document some of the legacy code to be written, and that may be an | important matter as the expertise for such older tools moves into | retirement. Off-list communication about such ideas welcome. As I mentioned to you at useR, knitr has had the ability to just call highlight as an external 'engine' for a long time (and that may have been added after I prodded Yihui when I needed to typeset some Matlab and/or Python code). Below is the output from 'highlight -p' --- we do already have support for a fairly large number of languages. Pascal is among them, as are some old enough to be of interest to you. Algol 68, maybe? ;-) Dirk edd@max:~$ highlight -p Installed language definitions (located in /usr/share/highlight/langDefs/): ABAP/4 : abap4 ( abp ) ABC : abc Advanced Backus-Naur Form : abnf Action Script : actionscript ( as ) ADA95 : ada ( a adb ads gnad ) Agda : agda ALGOL 68 : algol ( alg ) AMPL : ampl ( dat run ) AMTrix : amtrix ( hnd s4 s4h s4t t4 ) AppleScript : applescript Arc : arc ARM : arm AS/400 CL : as400cl ASCEND : ascend ( a4c ) ASP : asp ( asa ) Abstract : aspect ( was wud ) Assembler : assembler ( asm ) Applied Type System : ats ( dats ) AutoHotKey : autohotkey ( ahk ) AutoIt : autoit ( au3 ) Avenue : avenue (G)AWK : awk DOS Batch : bat ( cmd ) BBcode : bbcode BCPL : bcpl BibTeX : bibtex ( bib ) Biferno : biferno ( bfr ) Bison : bison ( y ) Blitz Basic : blitzbasic ( bb ) BM Script : bms Backus-Naur Form : bnf Boo : boo C and C++ : c ( c++ cc cpp cu cxx h hh hpp hxx ) Ceylon : ceylon Charmm : charmm ( inp ) CHILL : chill ( chl ) Clean : clean ( icl ) ClearBasic : clearbasic ( cb ) Clipper : clipper Clojure : clojure Clips : clp COBOL : cobol ( cbl cob ) ColdFusion MX : coldfusion ( cfc cfm ) C# : csharp ( cs ) CSS : css D : d Diff : diff ( patch ) Dylan : dylan Extended Backus-Naur Form : ebnf Eiffel : eiffel ( e se ) Erlang : erlang ( erl hrl ) Euphoria : euphoria ( eu ew ex exw wxu ) Express : express ( exp ) FAME : fame ( fame ) Felix : felix ( flx ) Fortran 77 : fortran77 ( f for ftn ) Fortran 90 : fortran90 ( f90 f95 ) Frink : frink F# : fsharp ( fs fsx ) Java FX : fx Gambas : gambas ( class ) Go : go Graphviz : graphviz ( dot ) Haskell : haskell ( hs ) haXe : haxe ( hx ) Hecl : hcl HTML : html ( htm xhtml ) Apache Config : httpd Icon : icon ( icn ) IDL : idl Interactive Data Language : idlang Lua (for LuaTeX) : inc_luatex Informix : informix ( 4gl ) INI : ini Inno Setup : innosetup ( iss ) INTERLIS : interlis ( ili ) IO : io Jasmin : jasmin ( j ) Java : java ( groovy grv ) Javascript : js JSP : jsp LDAP : ldif Haskell LHS : lhs Lilypond : lilypond ( ly ) Limbo : limbo ( b ) Linden Script : lindenscript ( lsl ) Lisp : lisp ( cl clisp el lsp sbcl scom ) Logtalk : logtalk ( lgt ) Lotos : lotos Lotus : lotus ( ls ) Lua : lua Luban : luban ( lbn ) Make : make ( mak mk ) Maple : maple ( mpl ) Matlab : matlab ( m ) Maya : maya ( mel ) Mercury : mercury Miranda : miranda Modula2 : mod2 ( def mod ) Modula3 : mod3 ( i3 m3 ) Modelica : modelica ( mo ) MoonScript : moon MaxScript : ms MSSQL : mssql Magic eXtensible Markup Language: mxml Notation3 (N3), N-Triples, Turtle, SPARQL: n3 ( nt ttl ) Nasal : nasal ( nas ) NeXT Byte Codes : nbc Nemerle : nemerle ( n ) NetRexx : netrexx ( nrx ) Nice : nice NSIS : nsis ( nsi ) Not eXactly C : nxc Oberon : oberon ( ooc ) Objective C : objc Objective Caml : ocaml ( ml mli ) Octave : octave Open Object Rexx : oorexx Object Script : os Oz : oz Paradox : paradox ( sc ) Pascal : pas Perl : perl ( cgi perl pl plex plx pm ) PHP : php ( php3 php4 php5 php6 ) Pike : pike ( pmod ) PL/1 : pl1 ( bdy ff fp fpp rpp sf sp spb spe spp sps wf wp wpb wpp wps ) PL/Perl : plperl PL/Python : plpython PL/Tcl : pltcl POV-Ray : pov Prolog : pro Progress : progress ( i p w ) PostScript : ps Microsoft PowerShell : ps1 PATROL : psl Pure : pure Pyrex : pyrex ( pyx ) Python : python ( py ) Qore : q QMake Project : qmake Qu : qu R : r Rebol : rebol Rexx : rexx ( rex rx the ) Relax NG : rnc RPG : rpg RPL Programming Language : rpl Ruby : ruby ( pp rb rjs ruby ) PowerPC Assembler : s SAS : sas Scala : scala Scilab : scilab ( sce sci ) Bash : sh ( bash ebuild eclass ) SMALL : small ( sma ) Smalltalk : smalltalk ( gst sq st ) Standard ML : sml SNMP : snmp ( mib smi ) SNOBOL : snobol ( sno ) RPM Spec : spec SPIN SQL : spn PL/SQL : sql Squirrel : squirrel ( nut ) Sybase SQL : sybase Tcl/Tk : tcl ( itcl wish ) TCSH : tcsh Regex tests : test_re TeX and LaTeX : tex ( cls sty ) Transact-SQL : tsql TTCN3 : ttcn3 Plain text : txt ( text ) UPC (and C, technically) : upc Vala : vala Visual Basic : vb ( bas basic bi vbs ) Verilog : verilog ( v ) VHDL : vhd XML : xml ( dtd ecf ent hdr hub jnlp nrm resx sgm sgml svg tld vxml wml xsd xsl ) SuperX++ : xpp Yaiff : yaiff Zonnon : znn Use name of the desired language with the --syntax option. edd@max:~$ -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
