Write your own style¶
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 Token, Comment, Keyword, Name, String, \
     Error, Generic, Number, Operator
class YourStyle(Style):
    styles = {
        Token:                  '',
        Comment:                'italic #888',
        Keyword:                'bold #005',
        Name:                   '#f00',
        Name.Class:             'bold #0f0',
        Name.Function:          '#0f0',
        String:                 'bg:#eee #111'
    }
That’s it, save it as your.py. 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.)
Token is the default 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 update the - pygments.stylessubpackage directory. For example:- add - your.pyfile
- regenerate the mappings file using - tox -e mapfiles
 
Note
You should only add it to the pygments.styles subdirectory if you are
working on a contribution to Pygments. You should not use that
method to extend an already existing copy of Pygments, use the plugins
mechanism for that.
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.
