Markdown.ColorCode

About The Project

An extension for Markdig that adds syntax highlighting to code through the power of ColorCode.

Demonstration

Before

using Foo.Bar.Baz;

namespace Foo.Api;

public interface FooService {
    /// <summary>
    ///     Gets a new Foo!
    /// </summary>
    /// <returns>A new Foo</returns>
    public void GetFoo() {
        return new Foo();
    }
}

After

using Foo.Bar.Baz;

namespace Foo.Api;

public interface FooService {
    /// <summary>
    ///     Gets a new Foo!
    /// </summary>
    /// <returns>A new Foo</returns>
    public void GetFoo() {
        return new Foo();
    }
}

Installation

Package Manager

Install-Package Markdown.ColorCode -Version 2.0.0

.NET CLI

dotnet add package Markdown.ColorCode --version 2.0.0

Usage

To use this extension with Markdig, simply install the Markdown.ColorCode package use the ColorCode extension:

var pipeline = new MarkdownPipelineBuilder()
    .UseAdvancedExtensions()
    .UseColorCode()
    .Build();

var colorizedHtml = Markdig.Markdown.ToHtml(someMarkdown, pipeline);

Several optional configuration options are also at your disposal:

var pipeline = new MarkdownPipelineBuilder()
    .UseAdvancedExtensions()
    .UseColorCode(
        HtmlFormatterType.Style, // use style-based colorization (default)
        myCustomStyleDictionary, // use a custom colorization style dictionary
        myAdditionalLanguages, // augment the built-in language support
        myCustomLanguageId // set a default language ID to fall back to
    )
    .Build();

var colorizedHtml = Markdig.Markdown.ToHtml(someMarkdown, pipeline);

Roadmap

See the open issues for a list of proposed features (and known issues).

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated. For detailed contributing guidelines, please see CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

Distributed under the MIT License License. See LICENSE for more information.

Contact

@wbaldoumas

Project Link: https://github.com/wbaldoumas/markdown-colorcode

Acknowledgements

This README was adapted from https://github.com/othneildrew/Best-README-Template.