Highlight-text Extension For Quarto

This is a Quarto extension that allows to highlight text in a document for various format: HTML, LaTeX, Typst, and Docx.

Installing

quarto add mcanouil/quarto-highlight-text

This will install the extension under the _extensions subdirectory. If you're using version control, you will want to check in this directory.

Using

To use the extension, add the following to your document's front matter:

filters:
  - highlight-text

Then you can use the span syntax markup to highlight text in your document, e.g.:

[Red]{colour="#b22222" bg-colour="#abc123"} # UK
[Blue]{color="#0000FF" bg-color="#ABC123"} # US

You can also use the shorter syntax (v1.1.1):

[Red]{fg="red" bg="primary"}

Using colours from _brand.yml (v1.1.0):

brand:
  color:
    palette:
      red: "#b22222"
    primary: "#abc123"

[Red]{colour="brand-color.red" bg-colour="brand-color.primary"}

Examples

Here is the source code for a minimal example: example.qmd.

Outputs of example.qmd:

• HTML
• Typst/PDF
• LaTeX/PDF
• Word/Docx (only supports plain text, i.e., no URLs)
• Reveal.js
• Beamer/PDF
• PowerPoint/Pptx (only supports plain text, i.e., no URLs)