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authorJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2019-03-20 11:23:47 -0700
committerJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2019-03-20 11:25:38 -0700
commit9c6c62fcd36210c1233187c8ff9a5fa15f7f146d (patch)
treea81cedd89566077cf1221df917d50fd7404a4e37
parent2883930cdf573356c03cf656f44c3c9763f1ee3d (diff)
Rephrase example #111 to indicate that the rendering is not mandated.
Closes #568.
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@@ -1922,9 +1922,11 @@ bar
An [info string] can be provided after the opening code fence.
-Opening and closing spaces will be stripped, and the first word, prefixed
-with `language-`, is used as the value for the `class` attribute of the
-`code` element within the enclosing `pre` element.
+Although this spec doesn't mandate any particular treatment of
+the info string, the first word is typically used to specify
+the language of the code block. In HTML output, the language is
+normally indicated by adding a class to the `code` element consisting
+of `language-` followed by the language name.
```````````````````````````````` example
```ruby