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Support downlit for syntax highlighting
With the recent developments in blogdown, one area where a difference remains between {hugodown} and {distill} on one side and {blogdown} on the other is syntax highlighting.
The approach taken by {distill} and {hugodown} via {downlit} seems to me quite effective - in terms of ease of setup as well as output (esp. linking and better sensitivity to R-specific syntax). A useful way of implementing presumably would be to allow opting in or out (depending on what a safe default is) to accommodate those using other syntax highlighting tools.
I haven't seen this discussed anywhere with respect to {blogdown}, so: would a {downlit} integration in {blogdown} be feasible and is it perhaps being considered? (I noticed syntax highlighting mentioned briefly under the v0.21 wishlist but no followup there.)
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This might become possible after the upstream support rstudio/rmarkdown#1941 (I haven't looked at the PR yet, so I'm not totally sure).
I'll take it into account.
blogdown support would require more work because of the different formats .Rmd and .Rmarkdown but I see how we could do. Not sure the rmarkdown PR alone would be enough but I'll check it.
+1 for downlit support in blogdown. This would be especially helpful when writing about packages that have custom print methods. For example, see here, where color palettes have a special print method that display the color with the hex code. But when used in blogdown, the custom printing breaks (see here).
Maybe r-lib/pkgdown#1556 is helpful, which solved this issue in pkgdown?
