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gnu source-highlight

gnu source-highlight is a command line program that can be used to highlight source code, it supports output to many formats including html, ODF, ANSI and groff.

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  • Free
  • Open Source

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  • Linux
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  1.  Syntax Highlighting
  2.  Command line interface
  3.  Support for MarkDown

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    Open Source and Free product.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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What is gnu source-highlight?

GNU Source-highlight, given a source file, produces a document with syntax highlighting. The colors and the styles can be specified (bold, italics, underline) by means of a configuration file, and some other options can be specified at the command line.

The program already recognizes many programming languages (e.g., C++, Java, Perl, etc.) and file formats (e.g., log files, ChangeLog, etc.), and some output formats (e.g., HTML, ANSI color escape sequences, LaTeX, etc.). Since version 2.0, it allows you to specify your own input source language via a simple syntax described later in this manual (Language Definitions). Since version 2.1, it allows you to specify your own output format language via a simple syntax described later in this manual (Output Language Definitions). Since version 2.2, it is able to generate cross references (e.g., to variable names, field names, etc.) by relying on the program ctags, http://ctags.sourceforge.net (Generating References).

Since version 3.0, GNU Source-highlight also provides a C++ library (which is used by the main program itself), that can be used by C++ programmers to add highlighting functionalities to their programs.

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