Code highlighting for Keynote presentations

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Step 0:

Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it

Step 1:

Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)

Step 2:

Highlight your source. "highlight -O rtf myfile.php | pbcopy". This will highlight the source code in RTF format and copy the result of that operation to your Mac's clipboard.

Step 3:

Paste into your slide in Keynote. Keynote will create a new text box with your highlighted code. You can adjust the width as needed, and adjust the font size with cmd+ and cmd-

My solution is to use Vim with vim-polyglot installed for syntax highlight

1. Open the file with the code on Vim
2. Use vertical selection (Option+Command + Left Click) on Terminal to select the part of the code I want to put into Keynote.
3. Pasted the copied content into a page in Keynote, the content is already formatted
4. You can customize the formatting even further on Keynote

Notes:

• point 2 works on iTerm as well, but you have to enable the option to copy text with styles.
  Prefs > Advanced > Copy to pasteboard on selection includes color and font style.
• The background color of your terminal is also copied, use Keynote to remove the background color. see this image

I would like to reduce the inter-line spacing : can either highlight or pygmentize handle that?

It seems does not support js. :(

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Any plans to add support for --syntax=solidity?

This is really helpful, thanks a lot. However, I can not get background color working, with canvas setting. Any suggestion?

Very nice, thanks