Jupyter kernel to highlight syntax

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I need to write lecture notes (about C++) and I want to use Jupyter Notebook.

Is there any simple kernel (or something else) to just highlight C++ syntax? I don't need to run code.

For now I use Markdown cells to write C++ code. I write code inside <pre> tags. There are two huge problems:

  • no syntax highlighting;
  • for example vector<int> is parsed as vector + <unknown tag> so the displayed result is vector. I have to workaround this by writing the following: vector&lt;int>. It's monotonous.

Thanks for any ideas.

jupyter-notebook syntax-highlighting
1 Answers

You can do this in a Markdown cell type by specifying the language of a triple-backtick (```) code block. Change the cell type to Markdown, then make a code block like this:

```c++
while(true) {
  cout << "hello world forever" << endl;
}
```

Hit Ctrl+Enter and you should see the cell rendered with code highlights.

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Jupyter includes code highlighting via the Pygments module, so you can specify any of the supported languages in the code block.

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