From 2e31cea442ad48ab837b6a2025eed7096817cfbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leonardo Giordani <giordani.leonardo@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:08:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added fenced syntax for Markdown

---
 docs/getting_started.rst | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/getting_started.rst b/docs/getting_started.rst
index 8ee37162..e12bd006 100644
--- a/docs/getting_started.rst
+++ b/docs/getting_started.rst
@@ -578,6 +578,15 @@ indenting both the identifier and code::
         :::identifier
         <code goes here>
 
+Alternatively, in Markdown you can use the fenced code blocks, wrapping
+your code in ``````` which does not require indenting::
+
+    A block of text
+    
+    ```identifier
+    <code goes here>
+    ```
+
 The specified identifier (e.g. ``python``, ``ruby``) should be one that
 appears on the `list of available lexers <http://pygments.org/docs/lexers/>`_.