Implementing custom highlighter

Implementing custom highlighter

Implementing a highlighter converting the code to any output format you need is quite simple. Just derive a class from AbstractHighlighter and implement a few methods called from the highlighter. It provides the text that should be written to the output together with a ThemeStyle object containing the styling of this text.

You always need to implement BeginDocument() as it should initialize the output and EndDocument() that should put the output to the Result property being returned by the Highlight methods. AddSpan() is called with every piece of text to output, together with the style.

For a full example see FlatHighlighter and TreeHighlighter classes in the source.