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@ -4,17 +4,17 @@ Tartrazine is a library to syntax-highlight code. It is
a port of [Pygments](https://pygments.org/) to
[Crystal](https://crystal-lang.org/). Kind of.
It's not currently usable because it's not finished, but:
* The lexers work for the implemented languages
* The provided styles work
* There is a very very simple HTML formatter
The CLI tool can be used to highlight many things in many styles.
# A port of what? Why "kind of"?
Because I did not read the Pygments code. And this is actually
based on [Chroma](https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma) ...
although I did not read that code either.
Pygments is a staple of the Python ecosystem, and it's great.
It lets you highlight code in many languages, and it has many
themes. Chroma is "Pygments for Go", it's actually a port of
Pygments to Go, and it's great too.
I wanted that in Crystal, so I started this project. But I did
not read much of the Pygments code. Or much of Chroma's.
Chroma has taken most of the Pygments lexers and turned them into
XML descriptions. What I did was take those XML files from Chroma