What?

Jygments 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.

• a wide range of common languages and markup formats is supported
• special attention is paid to details that increase highlighting quality
• support for new languages and formats are added easily; most languages use a simple regex-based lexing mechanism
• a number of output formats is available, among them HTML, RTF, LaTeX and ANSI sequences (currently only HTML!)
• it is usable as a command-line tool and as a library
• ... and it highlights even Brainf*ck!

Jygments is a port of Pygments from Python to Java. The above description is copied verbatim from the Pygments site.

Tutorial

QuickStart

What a Weird Name!

Yes, isn't it? Well, Jygments is a port of Pygments to Java. Pygments is English "pigments" with the "y" from Python. Since Jygments is a port, we've decided to keep the "y" in loving memory of Python.

Contributors

• Tal Liron (Original codebase)
• Paul Johnston