1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/App/OutputSettings.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/App/OutputSettings.hs
index cfb6f7ec2..04ea89eda 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/App/OutputSettings.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/App/OutputSettings.hs
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ import System.IO (stdout)
 import Text.Pandoc
 import Text.Pandoc.App.FormatHeuristics (formatFromFilePaths)
 import Text.Pandoc.App.Opt (Opt (..))
-import Text.Pandoc.App.CommandLineOptions (engines)
+import Text.Pandoc.App.CommandLineOptions (engines, lookupHighlightStyle)
 import Text.Pandoc.BCP47 (Lang (..), parseBCP47)
 import qualified Text.Pandoc.UTF8 as UTF8
 
@@ -105,6 +105,9 @@ optToOutputSettings opts = do
   syntaxMap <- foldM addSyntaxMap defaultSyntaxMap
                      (optSyntaxDefinitions opts)
 
+  hlStyle <- maybe (return Nothing) (fmap Just . lookupHighlightStyle)
+                (optHighlightStyle opts)
+
   -- note: this reverses the list constructed in option parsing,
   -- which in turn was reversed from the command-line order,
   -- so we end up with the correct order in the variable list:
@@ -221,7 +224,7 @@ optToOutputSettings opts = do
         , writerTopLevelDivision = optTopLevelDivision opts
         , writerListings         = optListings opts
         , writerSlideLevel       = optSlideLevel opts
-        , writerHighlightStyle   = optHighlightStyle opts
+        , writerHighlightStyle   = hlStyle
         , writerSetextHeaders    = optSetextHeaders opts
         , writerEpubSubdirectory = optEpubSubdirectory opts
         , writerEpubMetadata     = epubMetadata