Question on java source code formatted for presentation.

[Richard Harris-2]

Hi,

 

This question is for my Java brethren on the list. In a few days, I have to
submit a thesis for an MSc in OR. I need to include the source code for a
computational economics model I've put together for research.

 

Does anyone out there know of a way to take a java text file, and get a
nicely formatted file, such as .rtf, where the formatting is similar to what
you see in an IDE? For example, one that would have comments color coded
and, perhaps, method names in italics, etc?

 

I've tried printing from Eclipse 3.1 to a .pdf file, and then dragging that
into word. There seems to be two problems. I can't get the highlighted line,
where the cursor is, to un-highlight, and it only shows the first page. I
guess I could just print the code to .pdf one page at the time, but that's a
little too much like actual work.

 

Does anyone know of an IDE out there which has a "save as" feature which
allows one to save their .java file as an .rtf formatted for presentation or
something like that? Is there something simple I'm overlooking?

 

Thanks,

 

Rich

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[Martin C. Martin]

When I need something like this, I use the UNIX "enscript" command.  If
you give it --pretty-print-cpp, it'll use C++ rules, which are pretty
similar to Java.  It might even have a Java option, I don't know.

- Martin

Richard Harris wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  
>
> This question is for my Java brethren on the list. In a few days, I have
> to submit a thesis for an MSc in OR. I need to include the source code
> for a computational economics model I?ve put together for research.
>
>  
>
> Does anyone out there know of a way to take a java text file, and get a
> nicely formatted file, such as .rtf, where the formatting is similar to
> what you see in an IDE? For example, one that would have comments color
> coded and, perhaps, method names in italics, etc?
>
>  
>
> I?ve tried printing from Eclipse 3.1 to a .pdf file, and then dragging
> that into word. There seems to be two problems. I can?t get the
> highlighted line, where the cursor is, to un-highlight, and it only
> shows the first page. I guess I could just print the code to .pdf one
> page at the time, but that?s a little too much like actual work.
>
>  
>
> Does anyone know of an IDE out there which has a ?save as? feature which
> allows one to save their .java file as an .rtf formatted for
> presentation or something like that? Is there something simple I?m
> overlooking?
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
>  
>
> Rich
>
>
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[Mohammed El-Beltagy]

My solution would  require a bit of LaTexing. Here  is how I would do  it:

I would use the following template
=========
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{listings}

\begin{document}
\begin{lstlisting}[caption=YourCode.java, label=list:listing1, numbers=left, tabsize=2,showspaces=false, showstringspaces=false, basicstyle=\tiny, language=Java]
% cut and past your code in here

\end{lstlisting}

\end{document}
==================
This would also show line numbers, which could be useful for referencing in your thesis.

This is should be pretty easy to do. If don't have a Latex compiler on your machine, all you have to do is get MikTex  from http://www.miktex.org/ and TeXnic Center as the LaTex IDE from http://www.toolscenter.org/.

Cheers,

Mohammed
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  Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 7:08 PM
  Subject: [FRIAM] Question on java source code formatted for presentation.


  Hi,

   

  This question is for my Java brethren on the list. In a few days, I have to submit a thesis for an MSc in OR. I need to include the source code for a computational economics model I've put together for research.

   

  Does anyone out there know of a way to take a java text file, and get a nicely formatted file, such as .rtf, where the formatting is similar to what you see in an IDE? For example, one that would have comments color coded and, perhaps, method names in italics, etc?

   

  I've tried printing from Eclipse 3.1 to a .pdf file, and then dragging that into word. There seems to be two problems. I can't get the highlighted line, where the cursor is, to un-highlight, and it only shows the first page. I guess I could just print the code to .pdf one page at the time, but that's a little too much like actual work.

   

  Does anyone know of an IDE out there which has a "save as" feature which allows one to save their .java file as an .rtf formatted for presentation or something like that? Is there something simple I'm overlooking?

   

  Thanks,

   

  Rich



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[Carl Tollander-2]

You might also look at Jalopy - http://jalopy.sourceforge.net/
I haven't tried this, but would be interested in your experiences
with it.  There's an Ant plugin for it mentioned at
http://ant.apache.org/external.html

carl

Richard Harris wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
>
>  
>
> This question is for my Java brethren on the list. In a few days, I have
> to submit a thesis for an MSc in OR. I need to include the source code
> for a computational economics model I?ve put together for research.
>
>  
>
> Does anyone out there know of a way to take a java text file, and get a
> nicely formatted file, such as .rtf, where the formatting is similar to
> what you see in an IDE? For example, one that would have comments color
> coded and, perhaps, method names in italics, etc?
>
>  
>
> I?ve tried printing from Eclipse 3.1 to a .pdf file, and then dragging
> that into word. There seems to be two problems. I can?t get the
> highlighted line, where the cursor is, to un-highlight, and it only
> shows the first page. I guess I could just print the code to .pdf one
> page at the time, but that?s a little too much like actual work.
>
>  
>
> Does anyone know of an IDE out there which has a ?save as? feature which
> allows one to save their .java file as an .rtf formatted for
> presentation or something like that? Is there something simple I?m
> overlooking?
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
>  
>
> Rich
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9:30a-11:30 at ad hoc locations
> Lecture schedule, archives, unsubscribe, etc.:
> http://www.friam.org

[Carl Tollander-2]

IntelliJ does this nicely.  You can get line numbers and syntax coloring
if you want.

Richard Harris wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
>
>  
>
> This question is for my Java brethren on the list. In a few days, I have
> to submit a thesis for an MSc in OR. I need to include the source code
> for a computational economics model I?ve put together for research.
>
>  
>
> Does anyone out there know of a way to take a java text file, and get a
> nicely formatted file, such as .rtf, where the formatting is similar to
> what you see in an IDE? For example, one that would have comments color
> coded and, perhaps, method names in italics, etc?
>
>  
>
> I?ve tried printing from Eclipse 3.1 to a .pdf file, and then dragging
> that into word. There seems to be two problems. I can?t get the
> highlighted line, where the cursor is, to un-highlight, and it only
> shows the first page. I guess I could just print the code to .pdf one
> page at the time, but that?s a little too much like actual work.
>
>  
>
> Does anyone know of an IDE out there which has a ?save as? feature which
> allows one to save their .java file as an .rtf formatted for
> presentation or something like that? Is there something simple I?m
> overlooking?
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
>  
>
> Rich
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9:30a-11:30 at ad hoc locations
> Lecture schedule, archives, unsubscribe, etc.:
> http://www.friam.org