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Using GeShi filter for code highlighting

This website has the GeShi filter installed, so code can be escaped and formated with syntax highlighting. To have your code highlighted you must enclose it in "<code> </code>" tags. Just using these tags escapes the code and formats it as plain text.

To add syntax highlighting, set the "type" inside the tag like this, "<code type="bash">.

Supported languages are:

Language Name syntax "Type"
Bash bash
C c
C++ cpp
CSS css
Drupal 5 drupal5
Drupal 6 drupal6
HTML html4strict
Java java
Javascript javascript
Perl perl
PHP php
Python python
Rails rails
Ruby ruby
Scala scala
SQL sql
Xorg configuration xorg_conf

EXAMPLE: So if I wanted to highlight a bash one liner like, 'echo "Hello NOVALUG!"', I would encapsulate it like so <code type="bash">echo "Hello NOVALUG!" </code> which would result in the following highlighting:

echo "Hello NOVALUG!"