How to highlight some words in a verbatim block

[jandermoreira]

Description

Is there a way to highlight specific words in a code block?

For example, consider this block to simulate an interactive program execution:

```
What is your name? John Doe
Hello, John Doe!
```

I wish what the user typed to have a distinct color or be highlighted someway.

Something like:

What is your name? $\mbox{\color{blue}\large John Doe}$
Hello, John Doe!

[mcanouil]

I don't think you can or you would need to define a highlight style as for programming languages.
Or don't use markdown.

[yoonghm]

I think you could create your own syntax. See https://hamel.dev/notes/quarto/highlighting.html

[mcanouil]

Indeed, I was referring to this Pandoc/Quarto ability to use highlighting.
Thank you!

[jandermoreira]

I ended writing my own simple language, thank you.

terminal.xml.zip

It just highlights text between null characters to differentiate user input from the rest. I opted to use \0 to render "invisible" characters. Since my examples are generated by a program, I don't have to type de null characters.

It works with HTML and I had to add \catcode0=9 to allow nulls in TeX files.

To work with Quarto:

syntax-definitions: 
  - terminal.xml