Adding more information about client side highlighting

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Hugo provides the ability for you to highlight source code in two different
ways — either pre-processed server side from your content, or to defer the
processing to the client side, using a JavaScript library.
ways — either pre-processed server side from your content, or to defer
the processing to the client side, using a JavaScript library. The advantage of
server side is that it doesnt depend on a JavaScript library and consequently
works very well when read from an rss feed. The advantage of client side is that
it doesnt cost anything when building your site and some of the highlighting
scripts available cover more languages than pygments does.
For the pre-processed approach, Highlighting is performed by an external
python based program called [pygments](http://pygments.org) and is triggered
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### Disclaimers
* **Warning** pygments is relatively slow and our integration isn't
speed optimized. Expect much longer build times when using highlighting
as optimized as it could be. Expect much longer build times when using server side highlighting.
* Languages available depends on your pygments installation.
* While pygments supports a few different output formats and options we currently
only support output=html, style=monokai, noclasses=true, and encoding=utf-8.
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limits configuration. An ambitious user is encouraged to extend the current
functionality to offer more customization.
## Usage
### Usage
Highlight takes exactly one required parameter of language and requires a
closing shortcode.
## Example
### Example
{{% highlight html %}}
{{% highlight html %}}
<section id="main">
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{{% /highlight %}}
## Example Output
### Example Output
{{% highlight html %}}
<span style="color: #f92672">&lt;section</span> <span style="color: #a6e22e">id=</span><span style="color: #e6db74">&quot;main&quot;</span><span style="color: #f92672">&gt;</span>
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[Google Prettify]: https://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/
[Yandex]: http://yandex.ru/
[Highlight.js]: http://highlightjs.org/
Please see individual libraries documentation for how to implement the JavaScript based libraries.