Creating Own Styles

So, how to create a style? All you have to do is to subclass Style and define some styles:

from pygments.style import Style
from pygments.token import Keyword, Name, Comment, String, Error, \
     Number, Operator, Generic

class YourStyle(Style):
    default_style = ""
    styles = {
        Comment:                'italic #888',
        Keyword:                'bold #005',
        Name:                   '#f00',
        Name.Function:          '#0f0',
        Name.Class:             'bold #0f0',
        String:                 'bg:#eee #111'
    }

That’s it. There are just a few rules. When you define a style for Name the style automatically also affects Name.Function and so on. If you defined 'bold' and you don’t want boldface for a subtoken use 'nobold'.

(Philosophy: the styles aren’t written in CSS syntax since this way they can be used for a variety of formatters.)

default_style is the style inherited by all token types.

To make the style usable for Pygments, you must

• either register it as a plugin (see the plugin docs)

• or drop it into the styles subpackage of your Pygments distribution one style class per style, where the file name is the style name and the class name is StylenameClass. For example, if your style should be called "mondrian", name the class MondrianStyle, put it into the file mondrian.py and this file into the pygments.styles subpackage directory.

Style Rules

Here a small overview of all allowed styles:

bold

render text as bold

nobold

don’t render text as bold (to prevent subtokens being highlighted bold)

italic

render text italic

noitalic

don’t render text as italic

underline

render text underlined

nounderline

don’t render text underlined

bg:

transparent background

bg:#000000

background color (black)

border:

no border

border:#ffffff

border color (white)

#ff0000

text color (red)

noinherit

don’t inherit styles from supertoken

Note that there may not be a space between bg: and the color value since the style definition string is split at whitespace. Also, using named colors is not allowed since the supported color names vary for different formatters.

Furthermore, not all lexers might support every style.