Highlight is a source code to formatted text converter. It generates HTML, XHTML, RTF, ODT, LaTeX, TeX, SVG, BBCode and terminal escape sequences with coloured syntax highlighting. Language definitions and colour themes are Lua scripts and support plugins

Features

  • highlighting of keywords, types, strings, numbers, escape sequences, comments, operators and preprocessor directives
  • coloured output in HTML, XHTML 1.1, RTF, TeX, LaTeX, SVG, BBCode and terminal escape sequences
  • supports referenced stylesheet files for HTML, LaTeX, TeX or SVG output
  • all configuration files are Lua scripts, supports user plug-ins
  • recognition of nested languages within a file
  • reformatting and indentation of C, C++, C# and Java source code
  • wrapping of long lines
  • customizable keyword groups

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License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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User Reviews

  • Fabulous app. It works! I needed to convert code snippets to svg for importing into After Effects. This works exceedingly well for the workflow. It has all the features I need for animating code and more. It has extensive language support, too.
  • This highlighter is the fastest I have ever tried and plays nicely together with cgit.
  • [CLI] A great little application, have made use of it several times when needing to display code on a website
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Windows

Languages

Chinese (Simplified), Czech, English, German, Spanish

Intended Audience

Developers, Quality Engineers, System Administrators

User Interface

Qt

Programming Language

C++, Lua

Related Categories

C++ Documentation Software, C++ Source Code Management Software, C++ Code Review Software, C++ Code Converters, Lua Documentation Software, Lua Source Code Management Software, Lua Code Review Software, Lua Code Converters

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2008-01-23