Interface Highlight

a single text-highlight fragment on a pdf or epub page

reMarkable splits one highlighted passage into a fragment per line it spans.

interface Highlight {
    color: number;
    length: number;
    rects: HighlightRect[];
    start: number;
    text: string;
}

Properties

color: number

[speculative] an index into the highlight palette, not the pen palette

length: number

the number of characters highlighted

the rectangles the highlight spans, one per line

start: number

the character offset of the highlight within the page's text

text: string

the highlighted text