Global Reset

I updated Typo to the latest svn (rev 586) yesterday and got a sample of the new Filters API. Looks very slick. For example, here’s a filter which formats Ruby code with syntax highlighting:

class Foo
  def bar
    "abcde"
  end
end

The syntax for declaring that looks like this:

<typo:code lang="ruby">
class Foo
  def bar


&quot;abcde&quot;


  end
end
<typo:code>

<typo:flickr img=”38104907” style=”border: 1px solid #8ab3d1; padding: 5px; margin: 5px; float: right;” size=”small”/>

And it’s very easy to drop in a reference to a flickr image:

<typo:flickr
   style="border: 1px 


        <span class="k">solid #8ab3d1;</span>
   <span class="k">padding: 5px;</span>
   <span class="k">margin: 5px;</span>
   <span class="k">float: right;</span><span class="dl">&quot;</span></span>


   img="31367273"
   size="small" />

Is translated into the picture at the right. I’m quite impressed with that one.

Lastly, there is a filter for Sparklines, which allows you generate a chart (pie, area, discreet, etc) from dynamic data. e.g.:

<typo:sparkline
   type="pie"
   data="33.3 66.6" />

That bit of code renders the following graphic:

<typo:sparkline type=”pie” data=”33.3 66.6” />