NEWS

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highlight 0.5.2.9000

highlight 0.5.2 (2025-12-05)

• Remove C++11 requirement

highlight 0.5.1 (2023-01-18)

• Fix R CMD check failure

highlight 0.5.0 (2019-12-15)

• highlight has been un-orphaned; it won't be resuming active development, but I will keep it alive on CRAN in the future.

highlight 0.4.5 (2015-04-15)

• Abandon highlight.httpd.handler.

highlight 0.4.2 (2013-06-19)

• Dealing with spaces that were inserted where they should not have. Reported by Yihui Xie.
• Removing the last line from highlighted code chunks in the sweave driver. Requested by Dirk Eddelbuettel.
• Supporting VignetteBuilder: highlight.

highlight 0.4.1 (2013-04-09)

• Using sprintf instead of snprintf (for solaris).

highlight 0.4.0 (2013-04-08)

• Eliminated dependency on Rcpp and parser.
• Depends on R 3.0.0 (needed for getParseData).

highlight 0.3.2 (2012-06-22)

• highlight gains the show_line_numbers argument. Suggestion by Yihui Xie.
• The Sweave driver gains a <<file=>> option to highlight the content of a file.
• The latex renderer created a global variable "txt", reported by Yihui Xie.

highlight 0.3.1 (2011-12-05)

• Bug fix in the html renderer. Thanks to @tonybreyal for pointing out the bug on twitter.

highlight 0.3.0 (2011-12-02)

• Using sprintf instead of snprintf to make Solaris happy.
• New R function external_highlight that uses the C++ code from Andre Simon highlight library. The code is called directly, no more using a system dependency as before.

highlight 0.2-6

• Small bug fixed in the latex renderer. Reported by Collin Gillepsie.

highlight 0.2-5 (2010-12-07)

• Superfluous lines were added at the end of code chunks in the sweave driver.
• Multiple lines character strings were not rendered properly by the latex renderer.

highlight 0.2-3 (2010-11-19)

• Sweave blocks now respond to the size option, as in: <<size=footnotesize>>= and adapts the generated latex code accordingly.

highlight 0.2-1 (2010-06-04)

• Sweave code chunks can set prompt=FALSE to remove the prompt and continue prompt: <<eval=FALSE,prompt=FALSE>>=.

highlight 0.2-0 (2010-06-01)

• The sweave driver accepts argument boxes, bg and border to control the appearance of the R code chunks.
• The sweave driver interprets code chunks like <<lang=foo>>= as source code in language foo and uses highlight (http://www.andre-simon.de/) to render the code if available.

highlight 0.1-9 (2010-05-28)

• The latex renderer header added useless information.
• The latex renderer gains a "minipage" argument that is passed down to header and footer to include the resulting highlighted code in a minipage environment.

highlight 0.1-8 (2010-05-22)

• Custom http handler to handle http request of the prefix /custom/highlight/fun or /custom/highlight/package/fun.

highlight 0.1-6

• Fixed latex rendering (initial line of input and output) was indented.

highlight 0.1-5

• Fixed handling of prompts.
• Added an example of how to debug a renderer. Suggestion by Gabor Grothendieck.
• 'highlight' now tests that parser.output is of class 'parser' to prevent uses of the 'parse' function in place of 'parser'. Suggestion by Hadley Wickham.

highlight 0.1-3 (2009-11-22)

• All headers and footers now include line feeds.
• Headers and footers can now be NULL (no content).

highlight 0.1-2

• Initial release.