feat: highlight code syntax in markdown files #1534
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Since we already use highlight.js for highlighting syntax in code files, and Showdown to convert Markdown to HTML, using showdown-highlight allows us to highlight inline code in Markdown file with a coherent color scheme.
The library is very simple, allowing for few personalizations out of the box, but it works well as long as users specify the code language. There are other solutions but they are more complicated and they may result in a different default highlighting scheme for some languages, forcing us to create a customized common color pattern.
Example:
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fix #1358