From: "Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>,
"YP docs mailing list" <docs@lists.yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: [docs] is there any way to render content in italics in a code block?
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2026 10:39:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DFJYIQV433MB.1DVI67253GCB@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5eef4c2b-95ae-cc22-b44c-a03e29982c79@crashcourse.ca>
On Thu Jan 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM CET, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> one aspect of sphinx that gripes my wagger is that there does not
> seem to be any easy way to tag something in italics in a code block.
>
> here:
>
> https://docs.yoctoproject.org/bitbake/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-execution.html
>
> the code line:
>
> $ bitbake target
>
> really needs the word "target" in italics to show that it's meant to
> be replaced. and, no, this isn't minor nitpicking -- the whole section
> on overrides desperately needs to be able to show what things a
> developer is meant to replace.
>
> is there any way to do this?
I don't know but the best bet would be to find a lexer capable of doing this in
here: https://pygments.org/docs/lexers/
As those are the ones used by Sphinx.
Antonin
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Antonin Godard, Bootlin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-09 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-08 21:36 is there any way to render content in italics in a code block? Robert P. J. Day
2026-01-09 9:39 ` Antonin Godard [this message]
2026-01-15 10:06 ` [docs] " Quentin Schulz
2026-01-15 15:58 ` Robert P. J. Day
2026-01-15 16:17 ` Quentin Schulz
2026-01-15 21:19 ` Robert P. J. Day
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