minted
I wanted to enclose a bit of text/minimal HTML code in a minted text box. The HTML (a couple <br> and <a href='link'> doesn't matter to me, so I opted to use the text option for language in minted. However, I want to emphasize a few things in red text that are not HTML elements. For example:
Go to this link <a href="domain.com/upload/[UPLOAD_ID]"> to find your upload.
I would like the [UPLOAD_ID] to be in red. Is there any way to do this? Thanks!
According to the manual of minted, a minipage and an underlying \colorbox is used if the bgcolor=... option is applied.
Since \colorbox uses the \fboxsep length as separation between text and box 'frame', it's sufficient to change \fboxsep.
Applying a patch to \minted@inputpyg@inline this will succeed:
\xpatchcmd{\minted@inputpyg@inline}{%
\colorbox%
}{%
\fboxsep\mintedfboxsep%
\colorbox%
}{\typeout{Success}}{\typeout{Failure}}
\makeatother
Since this all happens in a group (see the detailed definition in minted.sty, the outer \fboxsep value isn't changed.
However: \fboxsep is a common length for all four separations of a \fbox or \colorbox box, i.e. the top, bottom, left and right separations are changed all if \fboxsep is modified!
This is a quick patch to change the underlying \fboxsep length.
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[paperwidth=6in,paperheight=9in, margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{libertine}
\usepackage[semibold]{sourcecodepro}
\usepackage{minted}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\definecolor{bg}{rgb}{0.9, 0.9, 0.9}
\newlength{\mintedfboxsep}
\setlength{\mintedfboxsep}{1.5pt}
\newmintinline{python}{python3, fontsize=\scriptsize, framesep=0.1pt,bgcolor=bg}
\xpatchcmd{\minted@inputpyg@inline}{%
\colorbox%
}{%
\fboxsep\mintedfboxsep%
\colorbox%
}{\typeout{Success}}{\typeout{Failure}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
Of these, \pythoninline{generators} is one of the biggest culprits. I'm guessing this is the case for most novice Python programmers.
\end{document}
Edit
What I've stated above about \fboxsep is true here, but I've changed the internal definition of \colorbox for the minted inline code only, introducing four lenghts:
\fboxrsep, \fboxlsep, \fboxtsep and \fboxbsep, each responsible for right, left, top and bottom separation.
Use one of the various \setlength{...}{} statements to change at will.
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[paperwidth=6in,paperheight=9in, margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{libertine}
\usepackage[semibold]{sourcecodepro}
\usepackage{minted}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\definecolor{bg}{rgb}{0.9, 0.9, 0.9}
\newlength{\mintedfboxsep}
\setlength{\mintedfboxsep}{0.2pt}
\newmintinline{python}{python3, fontsize=\scriptsize, framesep=0.1pt,bgcolor=bg}
\makeatletter
\newlength{\fboxrsep}
\setlength{\fboxrsep}{\fboxsep}
\newlength{\fboxlsep}
\setlength{\fboxlsep}{\fboxsep}
\newlength{\fboxtsep}
\setlength{\fboxtsep}{\fboxsep}
\newlength{\fboxbsep}
\setlength{\fboxbsep}{\mintedfboxsep}
\xpatchcmd{\minted@inputpyg@inline}{%
\colorbox%
}{%
\long\def\color@b@x##1##2##3%
{\leavevmode
\setbox\z@\hbox{\kern\fboxlsep{\set@color##3}\kern\fboxrsep}%
\dimen@\ht\z@\advance\dimen@\fboxtsep\ht\z@\dimen@
\dimen@\dp\z@\advance\dimen@\fboxbsep\dp\z@\dimen@
{##1{##2\color@block{\wd\z@}{\ht\z@}{\dp\z@}\box\z@}}}%
\colorbox%
}{\typeout{Success}}{\typeout{Failure}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
Of these, \pythoninline{generators} is one of the biggest culprits. I'm guessing this is the case for most novice Python programmers.
Compare:
\colorbox{bg}{generators}
\end{document}
There are various color schemas for minted, and several of them have gray comments. One example is the pastie style:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[cache=false]{minted}
\usemintedstyle{pastie}
\begin{document}
\begin{minted}[linenos]{c}
#include<Wire.h> //Wire library allow us to communicate with the I2C
\end{minted}
\end{document}
You can find examples of the different styles on https://help.farbox.com/pygments.html. These examples are for Python highlighting, but the color of the comments (starting with # in Python) is the same for other languages such as C. You can also try out the styles on your own code easily on https://pygments.org/demo/. Note that not all of the styles may be available on your system (but probably they are).
Best Answer
The minted documentation has a way to highlight text, as shown here:
As far as I understand, it is achieved by escaping the minted environment and executing the
\colorboxcommand. It is possible to use the\textcolorcommand, as shown by user187803 instead of\colorboxto make it work with minted.Example:
Result:
Applying it to your example, the underscore in
[UPLOAD_ID]needs to be escaped with a backslash[UPLOAD\_ID]. This is necessary because the underscore is normally used to index a character. But in this case the underscore should be printed as an underscore and not interpreted to make an index out ofID. If we do not use the backslash here, it will result in an error.Provided Example:
Result: