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I have been using typo for a while now and noticed that others had managed to get syntax highlighting working in their blog, but I couldn't find out how from the man pages. As per usual, a quick look on google has turned up the goods. For a quick review of the filters that you can use to format your text in typo, have a look at Scott Laird's article entitled 'Introduction to Typo filters'.

EDIT: I just found some help documentation for the text filters buried within the admin interface at http://yourblog/admin/textfilters

So, today I thought I would try installing Typo, the ruby blog software. The initial install attempts lead to a few problems.

1. After creating a fresh debian install and using apt to get ruby and gems tried to run 'gem install typo'. Everything seemed to go well, until I actually tried to run the typo install command. It wasn't there. Apparently the debian version of gems is broken and wont install the required stubs into the /usr/bin directory. To get around this I had to manually install the gems package from rubygems.org.
2. With gems manually installed I tried to get typo yet again. This time I received an error message stating that SSL was not installed on the system. Fixing this required an apt-get of openssl and libopenssl-ruby
3. After finally getting rails and typo installed I tried running the typo command yet again. The failure this time complained about the migrate task not working. This turned out to be due to the rails version being too new. So, I downgraded the installed version of rails to 1.2.6 from 2.0.1 and everything worked fine.