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authorWaylan Limberg <waylan@gmail.com>2014-01-07 14:48:07 -0800
committerWaylan Limberg <waylan@gmail.com>2014-01-07 14:48:07 -0800
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Merge pull request #274 from ajdavis/highlight-lines
Add feature for emphasizing some lines in a code block.
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# Code goes here ...
+ Certain lines can be selected for emphasis with the colon syntax. By
+ default, emphasized lines have a yellow background. This is useful to
+ direct the reader's attention.
+
+ :::python hl_lines="1 3"
+ # This line is emphasized
+ # This line isn't
+ # This line is emphasized
+
+ (`hl_lines` is named for Pygments' "highlighted lines" option.)
+
* ###When No Language is Defined
CodeHilite is completely backward compatible so that if a code block is