diff --git a/office/.local/bin/render-prettyhtml b/office/.local/bin/render-prettyhtml
index 26fd0aa..d6037e2 100755
--- a/office/.local/bin/render-prettyhtml
+++ b/office/.local/bin/render-prettyhtml
@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 # render html as markdown and display in glow, supports syntax highlighting
-# requires: html2text, glow
+# requires: html2text, glow or bat
 # author: CEUK
-perl -0777pe 's/(<code class="sourceCode\s?)(\w+?)(">)(.*?)(<\/code>)/\1\2\3\n```\2\n\4\n```\n\5/gs' "$1" | html2text | sed -re 's/^\s+(```(\w+)?)/\1/gm' >/tmp/mutt.md
-glow -s ~/.config/glow/email.json /tmp/mutt.md | sed 's/\x1b\[[6-9;]*m//g'
+fpath=/tmp/mutt.md
+
+perl -0777pe 's/(<code class="sourceCode\s?)(\w+?)(">)(.*?)(<\/code>)/\1\2\3\n```\2\n\4\n```\n\5/gs' "$1" | html2text | sed -re 's/^\s+(```(\w+)?)/\1/gm' -e 's/\x1b\[[6-9;]*m//g' >"$fpath"
+
+if command -v bat >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    bat "$fpath"
+elif command -v glow >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    glow -s ~/.config/glow/email.json "$fpath"
+else
+    sed 's/\x1b\[[6-9;]*m//g' <"$fpath"
+fi
+
+rm "$fpath" || exit 1