ANN: Pygments 0.6 "Zimtstern" released

Georg Brandl g.brandl-nospam at gmx.net
Wed Dec 20 23:05:45 CET 2006


I'm happy to announce the second public release of Pygments, the
generic Python syntax highlighter.

Download it from <http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/Pygments>, or
look at the demonstration at <http://pygments.pocoo.org/demo>.

News
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The new features since 0.5.1 include:

  * New lexers: Scheme, Bash, Apache configs, Myghty templates, Groff.
  * New RTF formatter.
  * Added option for the HTML formatter to write the CSS to an external file
    in "full document" mode.
  * Improved guessing methods for various lexers.
  * Support for guessing input encoding added.
  * Encoding support added: all processing is now done with Unicode strings,
    input and output are converted from and optionally to byte strings.
  * License change to BSD.

In other news, the Trac 0.11 trunk already includes support for Pygments as
the default highlighting library.

About
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Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of
software such as forum systems, wikis or other applications that need to
prettify source code. Highlights are:

      * a wide range of common languages and markup 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 is available, presently HTML, LaTeX, RTF
        and ANSI sequences
      * it is usable as a command-line tool and as a library
      * ... and it highlights even Brainf*ck!

The home page is at <http://pygments.pocoo.org>.

Read more in the FAQ list <http://pygments.pocoo.org/faq> or
look at the documentation <http://pygments.pocoo.org/docs>.

regards,
Georg Brandl


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