-*- mode: org -*-

Guile-syntax-highlight is a general-purpose syntax highlighting
library for GNU Guile.  It can parse code written in various
programming languages into a simple s-expression that can be easily
converted to HTML (via SXML) or any other format for rendering.

* Supported Languages

  - Scheme

* Example

  #+BEGIN_SRC scheme
    (use-modules (syntax-highlight)
                 (syntax-highlight scheme)
                 (sxml simple))

    (define code
      "(define (square x) \"Return the square of X.\" (* x x))")

    ;; Get raw highlights list.
    (define highlighted-code
      (highlight scheme-highlighter code))

    ;; Convert to SXML.
    (define highlighted-sxml
      (highlights->sxml highlighted-code))

    ;; Write HTML to stdout.
    (display (sxml->xml highlighted-sxml))
    (newline)
  #+END_SRC

* Requirements

  - GNU Guile >= 2.0.9

* Building

  Guile-syntax-highlight uses the familiar GNU build system and
  requires GNU Make to build.

** From tarball

   After extracting the tarball, run:

   #+BEGIN_SRC sh
     ./configure
     make
     make install
   #+END_SRC

** From Git

   In addition to GNU Make, building from Git requires GNU Automake
   and Autoconf.

   #+BEGIN_SRC sh
     git clone git@dthompson.us:guile-syntax-highlight.git
     cd guile-syntax-highlight
     ./bootstrap
     ./configure
     make
     make install
   #+END_SRC

* License

  LGPLv3 or later.  See =COPYING= for the full license text.