How To Format A Block of Code Within a Presentation?

Question

I am preparing a presentation using Google Docs Presentation though I can also work on the presenation within Open Office that will include code snippets.

Is there any easy way to perform basic syntax highlighting on the code snippets with either Google Docs or Open Office Presenter?

Edit: Since I believe that I can find a way to embed HTML any tools that can perform syntax highlighting on HTML would also be welcome suggestions.

Answer 1

Just a few suggestions:

• Screenshots might be an easy way, but you'll have to make sure the code in the image is big enough and clear enough to read. (not the whole screenshot, just the relevant part)
• If you can embed html then there are lots of tools to generate syntax highlighted html.

Answer 2

http://www.tohtml.com/ created syntax highlighted HTML code for lots of languages. It might be what you're looking for.

Answer 3

If you write your code in emacs then you might be interested in the htmlize elisp package.

Answer 4

If you're using Visual Studio (this might work in Eclipse also, but I never tried) and you copy & paste into Microsoft Word (or any other microsoft product) it will paste the code in whatever color your IDE had. Then you just need to copy the text out of word and into your desired application and it will paste as rich text.

I've only seen this work across Visual Studio to other Microsoft products though so I don't know if it will be any help.

Answer 5

coooder

"This extension provides syntax highlighting features for OpenOffice.org. COOoder will be usefull for developers wanting to present code fragments in writer documents. The colors used are the same than the ones from GeSHi. Character styles will be created for each language element."