[Python-markdown-discuss] Re: Specifying language for code blocks in lists

[Waylan L. <way...@ic...>]

Szabolcs,

You appear to be using fenced code blocks. However, as stated in the [docs][1], they "are only supported at the document root level. Therefore, they cannot be nested inside lists or blockquotes."

As a reminder, fenced code blocks are not part of the Markdown specification. They are an unofficial add on. The standard way of adding code blocks is to indent them. When nested in a list, you need to double indent them, once to nest them in a list, and once to format them as code blocks. It appears that you have done that in your example.

Of course, that doesn't identify the language. However, the [docs][2] for the CodeHilite extension describe three different ways to identify the language of a given code block. I suspect you will find that helpful.
Waylan Limberg

[1]: https://pythonhosted.org/Markdown/extensions/fenced_code_blocks.html#syntax
[2]: https://pythonhosted.org/Markdown/extensions/code_hilite.html#syntax


On Feb 06, 2015, at 01:33 PM, Szabolcs Horvát <szh...@gm...> wrote:

Hello,

I am (indirectly) using Python Markdown with the codehilite extension.

When writing markdown compatible with this processor, is there a way to specify the highlighting language for a code block contained within a list?

Take for example,

----

 1. List element one
 
 2. List element two has a code block
 
        <some> "code" here()

----

When the code block is not in a list, I can use

```langspec
<some> "code" here()
```

but the ``` doesn't seem to be allowed within lists.

Is there a workaround?  I don't expect that there will be, but I thought I'd ask, just in case.

 -- Szabolcs
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