Syntax Highlight

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "[![counter](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/sbarex/SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight/latest/total)](https://github.com/sbarex/SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight/releases) [![counter](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/sbarex/SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight/total)](https://github.com/sbarex/SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight/releases)\n\n[![buy me a coffee](https://img.buymeacoffee.com/button-api/?text=Buy+me+a+coffee\u0026emoji=\u0026slug=sbarex\u0026button_colour=FFDD00\u0026font_colour=000000\u0026font_family=Cookie\u0026outline_colour=000000\u0026coffee_colour=ffffff\")](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sbarex)\n\n\n\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg src=\"assets/icon.png\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" alt=\"logo\" /\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\n#  Syntax Highlight\n\nThe application offers a Quick Look Extension for macOS 10.15 Catalina and later for previewing source files.\nInside it uses [Highlight](http://www.andre-simon.de/doku/highlight/en/highlight.php) to render source code with syntax highlighting.\n\n\u003e **`Syntax Highlight` is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.**\n\nIf you like this application and find it useful, [buy me a coffee](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sbarex)!\n\n  - [Installation](#installation)\n    - [Download precompiled release](#download-precompiled-release)\n    - [Install with Homebrew](#install-with-homebrew)\n    - [Note for the precompiled release](#note-for-the-precompiled-release)\n    - [Build from source](#build-from-source)\n  - [Enable the Quick Look extension](#enable-the-quick-look-extension)\n  - [File format management](#file-format-management)\n    - [Supported formats](#supported-formats)\n  - [Application settings](#application-settings)\n    - [Rendering settings](#rendering-settings)\n      - [External Language Server support](#external-language-server-support)\n      - [Version control support](#version-control-support)\n    - [Plain files](#plain-files)\n    - [Colors](#colors)\n    - [Inquiry file](#inquiry-file)\n  - [Command line interface](#command-line-interface)\n  - [Add support to a custom format]",
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