rkdown variant introduced by pandoc itself). This very document was written in markdown and converted to HTML5 using pandoc and a custom template.</p>
<p>Pandoc is widely used for academic papers and technical documentation, and it ships with a built-in syntax highlighter (<a href="https://github.com/jgm/skylighting">skylighting</a>). By default, pandoc doesn’t support third party syntax highlighters, and the supported languages are hardcoded into pandoc and not extensible by end users without recompiling