Sygments is a syntax highlighting service and HTML5 app that uses Jython and Pygments.
Pygments is an excellent program syntax highlighter developed in Python.
Sygments lets you try different Pygments themes against a range of programming languages, including custom backgrounds.
It is especially suited for creating presentations.
See the demo at http://sygments.herokuapp.com/
Here is a sample rendering. It looks lovely:
I originally created part of this application when working on the presentation of the XML Processing in Scala paper I co-authored with @fancellu.
Syntax highlighter themes do not work well with custom backgrounds. I had chosen a background in Google Presentations but it did not work nicely with IntelliJ's highlighting for XQuery and Scala.
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Finding the right syntax highlighting theme for the background you've chosen
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Highlighting your code so it is ready to be copy-and-pasted straight into Google Presentation or other targets
Out of the initial manual work, I created this nice usable app.
- Install Java and SBT
- run
sbt play/run
- Go to (http://localhost:9000/)
If you want to host this behind an nginx reverse proxy and need to configure a context path, then add the -DcontextPath=/some/place
to the above line of code.
Highlighter interface performance:
- sbt
- Play 2.4
- materialize-css
- Jython
- Scalatest
Please refer to source material for copyright detail. The intention of this code is fair use, attributing authors via a web link.
Sygments back end code is available under the MIT license.