Highlight is a universal source code converter which transforms code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, Latex, TEX, SVG, BBCode and XML files with syntax highlighting. (X)HTML and SVG output is formatted by CSS. It supports customizable color theme and language descriptions with regular expressions. Highlight is an application that contains several options to provide a consistent formatting of the output code. However, the publisher has added some new few features and updated a couple of others that include the following; addition of support for MoonScript, UPS, N3, N-Triples, Turtle SPARQL, the print-style option has been fixed, and the addition and improvement of a few color schemes among other changes.

Highlight has some unique and powerful features that include the following; coloured output in HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, LaTeX, SVG, BBCode and XML format, supports 160 programming languages, inclusion of 80 color themes, recognizes nested languages, language definitions and themes are Lua scrips, plugin interface to tweak syntax parsing and coloring, CLI, GUI and Lib builds available, and platform independent.

Highlight is open source and that means you have opportunity to use it for as long as you wish to; and of course, it is unlimited. The program supports a lot of non-win platforms including MAC operating system.

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