Re: [docs] is there any way to render content in italics in a code block?

["Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>]

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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