Export highlighting style as JSON file

Pandoc highlighting can be customize using a JSON .theme file, passed to --highlight-style= flag. This function allows to generate the JSON version of one of the supported highlighting style.

Usage

pandoc_export_highlight_theme(
  style = "pygments",
  output = style,
  version = "default"
)

Arguments

style

One of the support highlighting style. (See pandoc_list_highlight_style()).

output

Path (without extension) where to export the JSON .theme file. By default, the file will be located in working directory and named based on the parameter style (i.e <style>.theme).

version

Version to use. Default will be the "default" version. Other possible value are

• A version number e.g "2.14.1"

• The nightly version called "nightly"

• The latest installed version with "latest"

• Pandoc binary shipped with RStudio IDE with "rstudio"

• Pandoc binary found in PATH with "system"

Value

the filename where the theme has been exported.

Details

The .theme extension is required and it will be enforced in during the export by this function.

Note

This correspond to the --print-highlight-style CLI flag using also --output to write a export a data file built in Pandoc.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # rlang::is_interactive()
# \dontshow{
withr::local_dir(withr::local_tempdir())
# }
# export tango theme used by Pandoc highlighting to `tango.theme` file
pandoc_export_highlight_theme("tango")
pandoc_export_highlight_theme("pygments", output = "my_theme.theme")
pandoc_export_highlight_theme("zenburn", version = "system")
}