PerlMonks strives to minimize the impact of "editing" of original posts. Site Janitors do their best to walk lightly. Whether it be by human touch or automation, changing the code's layout ala perltidy would break away from the spirit of that philosophy. Speaking for myself as a janitor, I have evolved to prefer simply wrapping naked code in code tags without altering the code's actual layout, as much as possible (or more accurately, as little as possible). I wouldn't want to automate something more heavy handed than that.
As for syntax highlighting, I know that though there are many proponents, there are some who feel that it encourages sloppy code layout.
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Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
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