Any way to get syntax-highlighted code blocks with Text::MultiMarkdown?

Aristotle Pagaltzis pagaltzis at gmx.de
Mon Dec 6 11:45:52 EST 2010


* Dr. Drang <drdrang at gmail.com> [2010-12-06 17:10]:

> I just added syntax highlighting to my blog by wedging a call

> to Pygments into my fork of PHP Markdown Extra (yet another

> abuse of Michel's code). You could do a similar thing with

> MultiMarkdown by changing the _DoCodeBlocks function.


Markdown spits out HTML. Any highlighter that can fish `<pre>`
and `<code>` out of HTML and highlight it will work on the
Markdown’s output. There is no need to wedge any of this into
Markdown itself.

Regards,
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Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>


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