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10.5: View syntax-highlighted source code in Quick Look
Authored by: orso on Tue, Dec 11 2007 at 9:19PM PST

I managed to compile a PPC version of highlight from the source, then I substituted the actual version of highlight in the Quick Look plugin (Contents/Resources/highlight) with the result of the compilation. And it worked immediately on my PB G4.

As a second step, I have added a few of the styles present in the source of highlight to those present in the plugin (Contents/Resources/langDefs), so now Quick Look manages correctly also .tex files.

Finally, I didn't need to compile the plugin from the source (but admittedly, I failed in trying) to have a PPC working syntax-highlighting Quick Look.

Hope this helps.