summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/web/tutorials/faq.markdown
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'web/tutorials/faq.markdown')
-rw-r--r--web/tutorials/faq.markdown12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/web/tutorials/faq.markdown b/web/tutorials/faq.markdown
index c0bbd3f..ad6dbd8 100644
--- a/web/tutorials/faq.markdown
+++ b/web/tutorials/faq.markdown
@@ -31,7 +31,19 @@ recent version of Pandoc (1.9 and onwards). Note that you also need to include
some CSS in order for this to work! This site, for example, uses the [default
Pandoc syntax CSS file][syntax-css].
+To highlight a code block, you need to use Pandoc's fenced code block syntax to
+set the block's language. For example, here's how you highlight Haskell code:
+
+ ``` haskell
+ fac n = foldr (*) 1 [1..n]
+ ```
+
+For details, see Pandoc's user guide on [fenced code
+blocks][pandoc-code-blocks] and [inline code][pandoc-inline-code].
+
[syntax-css]: https://github.com/jaspervdj/hakyll/blob/master/web/css/syntax.css
+[pandoc-code-blocks]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#fenced-code-blocks
+[pandoc-inline-code]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#verbatim
## When should I rebuild and when should I build?