Pygments¶
Description¶
Pygments is a syntax highlighting package written in Python.
It is a generic syntax highlighter suitable for use in code hosting, forums, wikis or other applications that need to prettify source code. Highlights are:
a wide range of over 300 languages and other text formats is supported
special attention is paid to details, increasing quality by a fair amount
support for new languages and formats are added easily
a number of output formats, presently HTML, LaTeX, RTF, SVG, all image formats that PIL supports and ANSI sequences
it is usable as a command-line tool and as a library
License¶
Modified BSD
Upstream Contact¶
Author: Georg Brandl
Home Page: http://pygments.org
Dependencies¶
Python
Special Update/Build Instructions¶
Patches included:
sage_prompt.patch: patch pygments/lexers/agile.py to treat the “sage:” prompt like Python’s “>>>” prompt. This allows a very kludgy patch to be removed from the Sphinx package (see #10118).