From f6ea504b83bbcf3e136bf7c31bc7a1a8be8820d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: fiddlosopher <fiddlosopher@788f1e2b-df1e-0410-8736-df70ead52e1b>
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 03:21:57 +0000
Subject: Updated README's instructions on delimited code blocks to include
 information about syntax highlighting.

git-svn-id: https://pandoc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@1225 788f1e2b-df1e-0410-8736-df70ead52e1b
---
 README | 15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

(limited to 'README')

diff --git a/README b/README
index bcc9519fc..118e57d63 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ row of tildes at the start and end:
 Optionally, you may specify the language of the code block using
 this syntax:
 
-    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ {.haskell}
+    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ {.haskell .numberLines}
     qsort []     = []
     qsort (x:xs) = qsort (filter (< x) xs) ++ [x] ++
                    qsort (filter (>= x) xs) 
@@ -741,7 +741,13 @@ this syntax:
 
 Some output formats can use this information to do syntax highlighting.
 Currently, the only output format that uses this information is HTML.
-The code block above would appear in the context
+
+If pandoc has been compiled with syntax highlighting support, then the
+code block above will appear highlighted, with numbered lines.  (To see
+which languages are supported, do `pandoc --version`.)
+
+If pandoc has not been compiled with syntax highlighting support, the
+code block above will appear as follows:
 
     <pre class="haskell">
       <code>
@@ -749,11 +755,6 @@ The code block above would appear in the context
       </code>
     </pre>
 
-This allows the HTML to be postprocessed using a syntax highlighting tool.
-(Pandoc itself does not do any syntax highlighting.) Note that multiple
-classes can be specified: for example, one might use `{.haskell
-.number}` to specify that lines be numbered in the highlighted output.
-
 Title blocks
 ------------
 
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