One of many open source applications that have been on the lips of several users for the past few years is Highlight. The program has been rated highly and severally by several users who use it to transform code to several versions. This time around, the publishers have added a couple of updates to enable users explore several other options not in past versions. Highlight now features updates such as; replacement of Regex engine with boost expressive, support for Dart and TypeScript, and addition of Chinese translation.

What Is “Highlight” All About?

Highlight is an open source universal source code converter that transforms code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, LaTeX, TEX, SVG and BBCode files with syntax highlighting. (X)HTML and SVG output is formatted by CSS. The open source program supports customizable color theme and language descriptions with regular expressions. The configuration files are Lua scripts with plug-in support. Highlight is also a tool that contains several options to provide a consistent formatting of the output code.

Highlight also has other power-packed features to enrich your tasks; and they are not as complex as the ones featured by a few other programs. Some of these notable features include: customizable keyword groups; supports 175 programming languages; colored output in HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, LaTeX, SVG and BBCode format; Plug-In interface to tweak syntax parsing and coloring; etc.

Downside

Highlight has no major downside, and the fact that it is an open source program makes it one of the most attractive programs in its category.

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