highlight(1) user documentation highlight(1)

NAME
       Highlight - a universal sourcecode to formatted text converter


SYNOPSIS
       highlight [OPTIONS]... [FILES]...


DESCRIPTION
       Highlight  converts  sourcecode  to  HTML, XHTML, RTF, ODT, LaTeX, TeX,
       BBCode, SVG, XTERM or ANSI escape sequences.  There are several  colour
       themes  available.   Highlight  recognizes  keywords, numbers, strings,
       comments, symbols and preprocessor directives.  It supports  about  160
       programming languages, which are defined in Lua scripts.


       It's  easily  possible  to  enhance highlight's database of programming
       languages and colour themes.  See the README file for details.

General options
       -B, batch-recursive=
              convert all files matching the wildcard (uses recursive search)

       -D, data-dir=
              set path to highlight data directory

       add-config-dir=
              set path to an additional configuration directory

       config-file=
              set path to a lang or theme file

       -h, help
              print this help

       -i, input=
              name of input file

       -o, output=
              name of output file

       -d, outdir=

              name of output directory

       -P, progress
              print progress bar in batch mode

       -S, syntax=
              set type of source code, necessary if input file suffix is miss‐
              ing

       -v, verbose
              print debug info to stderr

       -p, list-langs
              list installed language definitions

       -q, quiet
              supress progress info in batch mode

       -w, list-themes
              list installed themes

       force
              generate output if input syntax is unknown

       plug-in=