# Pygments

## Available formatters

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This page lists all builtin formatters.

### Common options

All formatters support these options:

encoding

  New in Pygments 0.6.

  If given, must be an encoding name (such as `"utf-8"`). This will be used to convert the token strings (which are Unicode strings) to byte strings in the output (default: `None`). It will also be written in an encoding declaration suitable for the document format if the full option is given (e.g. a `meta content-type` directive in HTML or an invocation of the inputenc package in LaTeX).

  If this is `""` or `None`, Unicode strings will be written to the output file, which most file-like objects do not support. For example, pygments.highlight() will return a Unicode string if called with no outfile argument and a formatter that has encoding set to `None` because it uses a StringIO.StringIO object that supports Unicode arguments to write(). Using a regular file object wouldn't work.

outencoding

  New in Pygments 0.7.

  When using Pygments from the command line, any encoding option given is passed to the lexer and the formatter. This is sometimes not desirable, for example if you want to set the input encoding to `"guess"`. Therefore, outencoding has been introduced which overrides encoding for the formatter if given.

### Formatter classes

All these classes are importable from pygments.formatters.

#### BBCodeFormatter

> Format tokens with BBcodes. These formatting codes are used by many bulletin boards, so you can highlight your sourcecode with pygments before posting it there.

> This formatter has no support for background colors and borders, as there are no common BBcode tags for that.

> Some board systems (e.g. phpBB) don't support colors in their [code] tag, so you can't use the highlighting together with that tag. Text in a [code] tag usually is shown with a monospace font (which this formatter can do with the `monofont` option) and no spaces (which you need for indentation) are removed.

> Additional options accepted:

> style
>   The style to use, can be a string or a Style subclass (default: `'default'`).
> codetag
>   If set to true, put the output into `[code]` tags (default: `false`)
> monofont
>   If set to true, add a tag to show the code with a monospace font (default: `false`).

> Short names: | bbcode, bb
> Filename patterns: | None

#### BmpImageFormatter

> Create a bitmap image from source code. This uses the Python Imaging Library to generate a pixmap from the source code.

> New in Pygments 1.0. (You could create bitmap images before by passing a suitable image_format option to the ImageFormatter.)

> Short names: | bmp, bitmap
> Filename patterns: | *.bmp

#### GifImageFormatter

> Create a GIF image from source code. This uses the Python Imaging Library to generate a pixmap from the source code.

> New in Pygments 1.0. (You could create GIF images before by passing a suitable image_format option to the ImageFormatter.)

> Short names: | gif
> Filename patterns: | *.gif

#### HtmlFormatter

> Format tokens as HTML 4 `<span>` tags within a `<pre>` tag, wrapped in a `<div>` tag. The `<div>`'s CSS class can be set by the cssclass option.

> If the linenos option is set to `"table"`, the `<pre>` is additionally wrapped inside a `<table>` which has one row and two cells: one containing the line numbers and one containing the code. Example:

>     <div class="highlight" >
>     <table><tr>
>       <td class="linenos" title="click to toggle"
>         onclick="with (this.firstChild.style)
>                  { display = (display == '') ? 'none' : '' }">
>         <pre>1
>         2</pre>
>       </td>
>       <td class="code">
>         <pre><span class="Ke">def </span><span class="NaFu">foo</span>(bar):
>           <span class="Ke">pass</span>
>         </pre>
>       </td>
>     </tr></table></div>

> (whitespace added to improve clarity).

> Wrapping can be disabled using the nowrap option.

> A list of lines can be specified using the hl_lines option to make these lines highlighted (as of Pygments 0.11).

> With the full option, a complete HTML 4 document is output, including the style definitions inside a `<style>` tag, or in a separate file if the cssfile option is given.

> When tagsfile is set to the path of a ctags index file, it is used to generate hyperlinks from names to their definition. You must enable anchorlines and run ctags with the -n option for this to work. The python-ctags module from PyPI must be installed to use this feature; otherwise a RuntimeError will be raised.

> The get_style_defs(arg='') method of a HtmlFormatter returns a string containing CSS rules for the CSS classes used by the formatter. The argument arg can be used to specify additional CSS selectors that are prepended to the classes. A call fmter.get_style_defs('td .code') would result in the following CSS classes:

>     td .code .kw { font-weight: bold; color: #00FF00 }
>     td .code .cm { color: #999999 }
>     ...

> If you have Pygments 0.6 or higher, you can also pass a list or tuple to the get_style_defs() method to request multiple prefixes for the tokens:

>     formatter.get_style_defs(['div.syntax pre', 'pre.syntax'])

> The output would then look like this:

>     div.syntax pre .kw,
>     pre.syntax .kw { font-weight: bold; color: #00FF00 }
>     div.syntax pre .cm,
>     pre.syntax .cm { color: #999999 }
>     ...

> Additional options accepted:

> nowrap
>   If set to `True`, don't wrap the tokens at all, not even inside a `<pre>` tag. This disables most other options (default: `False`).
> full
>   Tells the formatter to output a "full" document, i.e. a complete self-contained document (default: `False`).
> title
>   If full is true, the title that should be used to caption the document (default: `''`).
> style
>   The style to use, can be a string or a Style subclass (default: `'default'`). This option has no effect if the cssfile and noclobber_cssfile option are given and the file specified in cssfile exists.
> noclasses
>   If set to true, token `<span>` tags will not use CSS classes, but inline styles. This is not recommended for larger pieces of code since it increases output size by quite a bit (default: `False`).
> classprefix
>   Since the token types use relatively short class names, they may clash with some of your own class names. In this case you can use the classprefix option to give a string to prepend to all Pygments-generated CSS class names for token types. Note that this option also affects the output of get_style_defs().
> cssclass

>   CSS class for the wrapping `<div>` tag (default: `'highlight'`). If you set this option, the default selector for get_style_defs() will be this class.

>   New in Pygments 0.9: If you select the `'table'` line numbers, the wrapping table will have a CSS class of this string plus `'table'`, the default is accordingly `'highlighttable'`.

> cssstyles
>   Inline CSS styles for the wrapping `<div>` tag (default: `''`).
> prestyles
>   Inline CSS styles for the `<pre>` tag (default: `''`). New in Pygments 0.11.
> cssfile
>   If the full option is true and this option is given, it must be the name of an external file. If the filename does not include an absolute path, the file's path will be assumed to be relative to the main output file's path, if the latter can be found. The stylesheet is then written to this file instead of the HTML file. New in Pygments 0.6.
> noclobber_cssfile
>   If cssfile is given and the specified file exists, the css file will not be overwritten. This allows the use of the full option in combination with a user specified css file. Default is `False`. New in Pygments 1.1.
> linenos

>   If set to `'table'`, output line numbers as a table with two cells, one containing the line numbers, the other the whole code. This is copy-and-paste-friendly, but may cause alignment problems with some browsers or fonts. If set to `'inline'`, the line numbers will be integrated in the `<pre>` tag that contains the code (that setting is new in Pygments 0.8).

>   For compatibility with Pygments 0.7 and earlier, every true value except `'inline'` means the same as `'table'` (in particular, that means also `True`).

>   The default value is `False`, which means no line numbers at all.

>   Note: with the default ("table") line number mechanism, the line numbers and code can have different line heights in Internet Explorer unless you give the enclosing `<pre>` tags an explicit `line-height` CSS property (you get the default line spacing with `line-height: 125%`).

> hl_lines
>   Specify a list of lines to be highlighted. New in Pygments 0.11.
> linenostart
>   The line number for the first line (default: `1`).
> linenostep
>   If set to a number n > 1, only every nth line number is printed.
> linenospecial
>   If set to a number n > 0, every nth line number is given the CSS class `"special"` (default: `0`).
> nobackground
>   If set to `True`, the formatter won't output the background color for the wrapping element (this automatically defaults to `False` when there is no wrapping element [eg: no argument for the get_syntax_defs method given]) (default: `False`). New in Pygments 0.6.
> lineseparator
>   This string is output between lines of code. It defaults to `"\n"`, which is enough to break a line inside `<pre>` tags, but you can e.g. set it to `"<br>"` to get HTML line breaks. New in Pygments 0.7.
> lineanchors
>   If set to a nonempty string, e.g. `foo`, the formatter will wrap each output line in an anchor tag with a `name` of `foo-linenumber`. This allows easy linking to certain lines. New in Pygments 0.9.
> linespans
>   If set to a nonempty string, e.g. `foo`, the formatter will wrap each output line in a span tag with an `id` of `foo-linenumber`. This allows easy access to lines via javascript. New in Pygments 1.6.
> anchorlinenos
>   If set to True, will wrap line numbers in <a> tags. Used in combination with linenos and lineanchors.
> tagsfile
>   If set to the path of a ctags file, wrap names in anchor tags that link to their definitions. lineanchors should be used, and the tags file should specify line numbers (see the -n option to ctags). New in Pygments 1.6.
> tagurlformat
>   A string formatting pattern used to generate links to ctags definitions. Avaliabe variable are %(path)s, %(fname)s and %(fext)s. Defaults to an empty string, resulting in just #prefix-number links. New in Pygments 1.6.

> Subclassing the HTML formatter

> New in Pygments 0.7.

> The HTML formatter is now built in a way that allows easy subclassing, thus customizing the output HTML code. The format() method calls self._format_lines() which returns a generator that yields tuples of `(1, line)`, where the `1` indicates that the `line` is a line of the formatted source code.

> If the nowrap option is set, the generator is the iterated over and the resulting HTML is output.

> Otherwise, format() calls self.wrap(), which wraps the generator with other generators. These may add some HTML code to the one generated by _format_lines(), either by modifying the lines generated by the latter, then yielding them again with `(1, line)`, and/or by yielding other HTML code before or after the lines, with `(0, html)`. The distinction between source lines and other code makes it possible to wrap the generator multiple times.

> The default wrap() implementation adds a `<div>` and a `<pre>` tag.

> A custom HtmlFormatter subclass could look like this:

>     class CodeHtmlFormatter(HtmlFormatter):

>         def wrap(self, source, outfile):
>             return self._wrap_code(source)

>         def _wrap_code(self, source):
>             yield 0, '<code>'
>             for i, t in source:
>                 if i == 1:
>                     # it's a line of formatted code
>                     t += '<br>'
>                 yield i, t
>             yield 0, '</code>'

> This results in wrapping the formatted lines with a `<code>` tag, where the source lines are broken using `<br>` tags.

> After calling wrap(), the format() method also adds the "line numbers" and/or "full document" wrappers if the respective options are set. Then, all HTML yielded by the wrapped generator is output.

> Short names: | html
> Filename patterns: | *.html, *.htm

#### ImageFormatter

> Create a PNG image from source code. This uses the Python Imaging Library to generate a pixmap from the source code.

> New in Pygments 0.10.

> Additional options accepted:

> image_format

>   An image format to output to that is recognised by PIL, these include:

>   - "PNG" (default)
>   - "JPEG"
>   - "BMP"
>   - "GIF"
> line_pad

>   The extra spacing (in pixels) between each line of text.

>   Default: 2

> font_name

>   The font name to be used as the base font from which others, such as bold and italic fonts will be generated. This really should be a monospace font to look sane.

>   Default: "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono"

> font_size

>   The font size in points to be used.

>   Default: 14

> image_pad

>   The padding, in pixels to be used at each edge of the resulting image.

>   Default: 10

> line_numbers

>   Whether line numbers should be shown: True/False

>   Default: True

> line_number_start

>   The line number of the first line.

>   Default: 1

> line_number_step

>   The step used when printing line numbers.

>   Default: 1

> line_number_bg

>   The background colour (in "#123456" format) of the line number bar, or None to use the style background color.

>   Default: "#eed"

> line_number_fg

>   The text color of the line numbers (in "#123456"-like format).

>   Default: "#886"

> line_number_chars

>   The number of columns of line numbers allowable in the line number margin.

>   Default: 2

> line_number_bold

>   Whether line numbers will be bold: True/False

>   Default: False

> line_number_italic

>   Whether line numbers will be italicized: True/False

>   Default: False

> line_number_separator

>   Whether a line will be drawn between the line number area and the source code area: True/False

>   Default: True

> line_number_pad

>   The horizontal padding (in pixels) between the line number margin, and the source code area.

>   Default: 6

> hl_lines

>   Specify a list of lines to be highlighted. New in Pygments 1.2.

>   Default: empty list

> hl_color

>   Specify the color for highlighting lines. New in Pygments 1.2.

>   Default: highlight color of the selected style

> Short names: | img, IMG, png
> Filename patterns: | *.png

#### JpgImageFormatter

> Create a JPEG image from source code. This uses the Python Imaging Library to generate a pixmap from the source code.

> New in Pygments 1.0. (You could create JPEG images before by passing a suitable image_format option to the ImageFormatter.)

> Short names: | jpg, jpeg
> Filename patterns: | *.jpg

#### LatexFormatter

> Format tokens as LaTeX code. This needs the fancyvrb and color standard packages.

> Without the full option, code is formatted as one `Verbatim` environment, like this:

>     \begin{Verbatim}[commandchars=\\{\}]
>     \PY{k}{def }\PY{n+nf}{foo}(\PY{n}{bar}):
>         \PY{k}{pass}
>     \end{Verbatim}

> The special command used here (`\PY`) and all the other macros it needs are output by the get_style_defs method.

> With the full option, a complete LaTeX document is output, including the command definitions in the preamble.

> The get_style_defs() method of a LatexFormatter returns a string containing `\def` commands defining the macros needed inside the `Verbatim` environments.

> Additional options accepted:

> style
>   The style to use, can be a string or a Style subclass (default: `'default'`).
> full
>   Tells the formatter to output a "full" document, i.e. a complete self-contained document (default: `False`).
> title
>   If full is true, the title that should be used to caption the document (default: `''`).
> docclass
>   If the full option is enabled, this is the document class to use (default: `'article'`).
> preamble
>   If the full option is enabled, this can be further preamble commands, e.g. `\usepackage` (default: `''`).
> linenos
>   If set to `True`, output line numbers (default: `False`).
> linenostart
>   The line number for the first line (default: `1`).
> linenostep
>   If set to a number n > 1, only every nth line number is printed.
> verboptions
>   Additional options given to the Verbatim environment (see the fancyvrb docs for possible values) (default: `''`).
> commandprefix

>   The LaTeX commands used to produce colored output are constructed using this prefix and some letters (default: `'PY'`). New in Pygments 0.7.

>   New in Pygments 0.10: the default is now `'PY'` instead of `'C'`.

> texcomments
>   If set to `True`, enables LaTeX comment lines. That is, LaTex markup in comment tokens is not escaped so that LaTeX can render it (default: `False`). New in Pygments 1.2.
> mathescape
>   If set to `True`, enables LaTeX math mode escape in comments. That is, `'$...$'` inside a comment will trigger math mode (default: `False`). New in Pygments 1.2.

> Short names: | latex, tex
> Filename patterns: | *.tex

#### NullFormatter

> Output the text unchanged without any formatting.

> Short names: | text, null
> Filename patterns: | *.txt

#### RawTokenFormatter

> Format tokens as a raw representation for storing token streams.

> The format is `tokentype<TAB>repr(tokenstring)\n`. The output can later be converted to a token stream with the RawTokenLexer, described in the lexer list.

> Only two options are accepted:

> compress
>   If set to `'gz'` or `'bz2'`, compress the output with the given compression algorithm after encoding (default: `''`).
> error_color
>   If set to a color name, highlight error tokens using that color. If set but with no value, defaults to `'red'`. New in Pygments 0.11.

> Short names: | raw, tokens
> Filename patterns: | *.raw

#### RtfFormatter

> Format tokens as RTF markup. This formatter automatically outputs full RTF documents with color information and other useful stuff. Perfect for Copy and Paste into Microsoft® Word® documents.

> New in Pygments 0.6.

> Additional options accepted:

> style
>   The style to use, can be a string or a Style subclass (default: `'default'`).
> fontface
>   The used font famliy, for example `Bitstream Vera Sans`. Defaults to some generic font which is supposed to have fixed width.

> Short names: | rtf
> Filename patterns: | *.rtf

#### SvgFormatter

> Format tokens as an SVG graphics file. This formatter is still experimental. Each line of code is a `<text>` element with explicit `x` and `y` coordinates containing `<tspan>` elements with the individual token styles.

> By default, this formatter outputs a full SVG document including doctype declaration and the `<svg>` root element.

> New in Pygments 0.9.

> Additional options accepted:

> nowrap
>   Don't wrap the SVG `<text>` elements in `<svg><g>` elements and don't add a XML declaration and a doctype. If true, the fontfamily and fontsize options are ignored. Defaults to `False`.
> fontfamily
>   The value to give the wrapping `<g>` element's `font-family` attribute, defaults to `"monospace"`.
> fontsize
>   The value to give the wrapping `<g>` element's `font-size` attribute, defaults to `"14px"`.
> xoffset
>   Starting offset in X direction, defaults to `0`.
> yoffset
>   Starting offset in Y direction, defaults to the font size if it is given in pixels, or `20` else. (This is necessary since text coordinates refer to the text baseline, not the top edge.)
> ystep
>   Offset to add to the Y coordinate for each subsequent line. This should roughly be the text size plus 5. It defaults to that value if the text size is given in pixels, or `25` else.
> spacehack
>   Convert spaces in the source to `&#160;`, which are non-breaking spaces. SVG provides the `xml:space` attribute to control how whitespace inside tags is handled, in theory, the `preserve` value could be used to keep all whitespace as-is. However, many current SVG viewers don't obey that rule, so this option is provided as a workaround and defaults to `True`.

> Short names: | svg
> Filename patterns: | *.svg

#### Terminal256Formatter

> Format tokens with ANSI color sequences, for output in a 256-color terminal or console. Like in TerminalFormatter color sequences are terminated at newlines, so that paging the output works correctly.

> The formatter takes colors from a style defined by the style option and converts them to nearest ANSI 256-color escape sequences. Bold and underline attributes from the style are preserved (and displayed).

> New in Pygments 0.9.

> Options accepted:

> style
>   The style to use, can be a string or a Style subclass (default: `'default'`).

> Short names: | terminal256, console256, 256
> Filename patterns: | None

#### TerminalFormatter

> Format tokens with ANSI color sequences, for output in a text console. Color sequences are terminated at newlines, so that paging the output works correctly.

> The get_style_defs() method doesn't do anything special since there is no support for common styles.

> Options accepted:

> bg
>   Set to `"light"` or `"dark"` depending on the terminal's background (default: `"light"`).
> colorscheme
>   A dictionary mapping token types to (lightbg, darkbg) color names or `None` (default: `None` = use builtin colorscheme).

> Short names: | terminal, console
> Filename patterns: | None