[Tex/LaTex] Export source code of tex file

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I have to create a training guide for Maple as part of an assignment. Obviously I need to hand in the final PDF document, but I also need to hand in the LaTeX source code to prove that I created the document using LaTeX. Is there a way of exporting the source code with all the colours, indentation etc. still in place?

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Here is a tcolorbox - listings way of inputting the document itself to the file and displaying the code.

\documentclass{article}


\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}

\begin{document}
This is my nice \LaTeXe{} file.

It shows the code of itself:

\tcbinputlisting{breakable,listing file=\jobname.tex,listing only,colback=white!40!yellow,sharp corners}
\end{document}

For breakable boxes:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}

\begin{document}
This is my nice \LaTeXe{} file.

It shows the code of it self -- and here is some blind text to make the text longer


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\tcbinputlisting{breakable,listing file=\jobname.tex,listing only,colback=white!40!yellow,sharp corners}
\end{document}

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