Problem

When I was writing the post The Daring Fireball Linked List, I included a sample Markdown source file for an Ocotpress post. I would like to have a monospaced font and a line number at the left of each line of the source file. In addition, I didn’t need any syntax highlighting for that file.

I looked at the official manual, and it’s said that “passing plain disables highlighting”.¹ However, I got errors from Pygments!

127.0.0.1 - - [30/Aug/2014 21:36:51] "GET /images/noise.png?1408511469 HTTP/1.1"
 304 - 0.0010
      Regenerating: 1 files at 2014-08-30 21:38:38 ...done.
      Regenerating: 1 files at 2014-08-30 21:43:53   Liquid Exception: Pygments 
can't parse unknown language: plain. in _posts/2014-08-30-the-daring-fireball-li
nked-list.markdown/#excerpt
...error:
             Error: Pygments can't parse unknown language: plain.
             Error: Run jekyll build --trace for more information.
      Regenerating: 1 files at 2014-08-30 21:44:21   Liquid Exception: Pygments 
can't parse unknown language: plain. in _posts/2014-08-30-the-daring-fireball-li
nked-list.markdown/#excerpt
...error:
             Error: Pygments can't parse unknown language: plain.
             Error: Run jekyll build --trace for more information.
      Regenerating: 1 files at 2014-08-30 21:48:26 ...done.

Solution

1. Just use {% codeblock %}
   • Omit lang: xxx
   • I’m not sure if I can add title after codeblock.
2. Use lang:text to indicate plain text.²

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