Highlight

Highlight is a super cool, open-source software that’s free and easy to use. It’s designed with Qt and works on multiple platforms, making it perfect for converting source code into popular web formats like HTML, SVG, RTF, XHTML 1.1, TeX, LaTeX, and BBCode. Plus, it can handle terminal escape sequences too!

Key Features of Highlight

With Highlight, you can highlight all sorts of things in your code. Think keywords, strings, comments, preprocessor directives—basically anything you need to make your code look great! It also lets you reformat and indent source code for languages like C++, C#, Java, and more. You can even configure output line numbers and define syntax elements using plain string lists or regular expressions.

Support for Multiple Languages

This software supports over 175 programming languages, which is pretty impressive! There are also more than 80 highlighting color themes to choose from. You can customize keyword groups and wrap long lines easily. Plus, if you're working with SVG or HTML outputs, it supports referenced stylesheet files.

User-Friendly Configuration

All configuration files in Highlight are Lua scripts, which means you have flexibility. If you want to enhance its functionality even more, plugin scripts are available! It can recognize nested languages within a single file too.

Cross-Platform Compatibility

This application is written in C++ and uses the Qt GUI toolkit for its interface. It works smoothly on various GNU/Linux distributions that support Qt as well as on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X systems.

Download Highlight Today!

If you're a Linux user looking to download Highlight, you'll find it available as a bz2 archive containing the source code of the application. This allows you to optimize it specifically for your architecture and operating system needs. The app currently supports both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware platforms. To get started with this fantastic tool for coding highlights, check out this link: Download Highlight.