Markdown and syntax highlighting

26 March, 2018

Jekyll and escape sequences can be strange.

With Github Flavored Markdown, it is possible to set syntax highlighting in fenced code blocks like so:

{% raw %}

```haskell
putStrln "Hello World!"
```

{% endraw %}

But what about code blocks that are made up using four initial spaces on each line? Like so: 

 print "bar"
. The only option is to add {% raw %}{% highlight haskell %}{% endraw %}and{% raw %}{% endhighlight %}{% endraw %}` after:

{% highlight python %} print "bar {% endhighlight %}

Blocks of code are either fenced by lines with three back-ticks ```, or are indented with four spaces. I recommend only using the fenced code blocks -- they're easier and only they support syntax highlighting. -- Markdown Cheatsheet

You can check out the source code of this blog post also.

Sidenote: Make sure to keep your post in UTF-8 format or Jekyll might spaz out.

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