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Code highlighting for Keynote presentations

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-

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$ highlight -O rtf highlight.rb --line-numbers --font-size 24 --font Inconsolata --style solarized-dark -W -J 50 -j 3 --src-lang ruby | pbcopy

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$ pbpaste | highlight -O rtf --syntax=groovy | pbcopy

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