From effaf6c2c97c90619f12293f8c474e2738d6d2f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Basic <robertbasic.com@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 10:21:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] docs: Document GitHub flavoured code fences Fixes #1259

---
 docs/content/extras/highlighting.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/content/extras/highlighting.md b/docs/content/extras/highlighting.md
index 73d388b73..788759d03 100644
--- a/docs/content/extras/highlighting.md
+++ b/docs/content/extras/highlighting.md
@@ -86,6 +86,22 @@ Supported keywords:  `style`, `encoding`, `noclasses`, `hl_lines`, `linenos`. No
 
 The keywords are the same you would using with Pygments from the command line, see the [Pygments doc](http://pygments.org/docs/) for more info.
 
+### Code fences
+
+It is also possible to add syntax highlighting with GitHub flavoured code fences. To enable this, set the `PygmentsCodeFences` to `true` in Hugo's configuration file.
+
+````
+``` html
+<section id="main">
+  <div>
+    <h1 id="title">{{ .Title }}</h1>
+    {{ range .Data.Pages }}
+      {{ .Render "summary"}}
+    {{ end }}
+  </div>
+</section>
+```
+````
 
 ### Disclaimers