Thanks to a quite overdue update of Hugo on our build system, our website can now harness the full power of Hugo code highlighting for Markdown-based content. What’s code highlighting apart from the reason behind a tongue-twister in this post title? In this post we shall explain how Hugo’s code highlighter, Chroma, helps you prettify your code (i.e. syntax highlighting), and accentuate parts of your code (i.e. line highlighting).
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ropensci.org/technotes/2020/04/30/code-highlighting/