(old) method for adding languages to highlight.js on Discourse

[david (David Taylor)]

Hi @what, the OP in this topic was out-of-date. I’ve pulled the working instructions out into a fresh topic:

Install a new language for Highlight.JS via a theme component

I’ve just added a hook to our HighlightJS code so now you can use the plugin API to add a custom language for Highlight.JS. Example (using the beancount language from the OP): <script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.8.27"> // add Beancount language to HighlightJS // Must build highlight.js with "node tools/build.js -t cdn" const beancountLang = function(e){var c="[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9-]*",a="[0-9]{4}[-|/][0-9]{2}[-|/][0-9]{2}",b="(balance|commodity|custom|document|event|note|open|pad|p…