docs: Document GitHub flavoured code fences

Fixes #1259

diff --git a/docs/content/extras/highlighting.md b/docs/content/extras/highlighting.md
index 73d388b73f21e2c4dc8fe6d4359f2cd181d77aac..788759d03130858f00e9b47d724ed4f19fca2400 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/content/extras/highlighting.md
+++ b/docs/content/extras/highlighting.md
@@ -86,6 +86,22 @@ Supported keywords:  `style`, `encoding`, `noclasses`, `hl_lines`, `linenos`. No
 
 The keywords are the same you would using with Pygments from the command line, see the [Pygments doc](http://pygments.org/docs/) for more info.
 
+### Code fences
+
+It is also possible to add syntax highlighting with GitHub flavoured code fences. To enable this, set the `PygmentsCodeFences` to `true` in Hugo's configuration file.
+
+````
+``` html
+<section id="main">
+  <div>
+    <h1 id="title">{{ .Title }}</h1>
+    {{ range .Data.Pages }}
+      {{ .Render "summary"}}
+    {{ end }}
+  </div>
+</section>
+```
+````
 
 ### Disclaimers