New version of Highlight out now

André Simon is developing his smart tool, which is called Highlight (and that is what is does), since beginning of 2002. The software itself is OSI certified and under GPL. It is available for linux, freebsd, windows and soon also for mac. Here is a short overview of the features which come with highlight:

- highlighting of keywords, strings, numbers, escape sequences, comments, symbols and directive lines
- highlighting of custom keyword groups
- highlight has support for regular expressions in language definitions
- coloured output in HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, LaTeX, terminal escape sequences and XML format
- customizable reformatting and indentation of C, C++, C# and Java source code
- customizable colour themes
- wrapping of long lines
- output of line numbers
- choice to embed the style-information in the output HTML, LaTeX or TeX file or to reference a separate style definition file
- recursive batch processing of directories
- platform independent
- includes SWIG scripting binding
- over 120 different types of programming languages, markup languages and configuration files are supported

The new version 2.5.0 beta has a new preview function, which will show you immediatly how your output will look like. Highlight is used in popluar projects like viewcvs - if you want to know why, just look at it and give it a try.

You can find the software at http://www.andre-simon.de