Re: Export Emacs highlighting to LaTeX?

[Joost Kremers]

On Fri, May 14 2021, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> jfbu <jfbu@free.fr> writes:
>> One could also imagine that some eLisp function would take a region
>> and a language from a TeX buffer and insert underneath it
>> LaTeX-formatted (or Plain TeX-formatted) mark-up. The original could
>> be enclosed in a comment environment or other means to let it be
>> ignored by LaTeX compiling itself.
>
> Well, that's certainly feasible to some degree, i.e., you can access all
> faces and their attributes and convert them to some similar looking
> LaTeX code.

Note that Emacs comes with htmlize.el, which does exactly this but for HTML
output. Anyone who wants to start hacking away might take a look at it for
ideas.


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Joost Kremers
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