How can we enable TeX syntax highlighting as the default? - TeX

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Caleb

Most Markdown code block syntax highlighters have pretty good support for TeX based languages out of the box. I think it's reasonable to assume blocks otherwise unmarked on this site are going to be tex.

Source:

~~~markdown
```
\textbf{bob}
```
~~~

Output:

```
\textbf{bob}
```

Of course setting the language should also work:


Source:

~~~markdown
```tex
\textbf{bob}
```
~~~

Output:

```tex
\textbf{bob}
```

Right not it appears the language is just not recognized.

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Jack Douglas

We've added TeX to our highlightjs highlighting library  as it [isn't in the list](https://highlightjs.org/download/) for a default download.

We've also made `tex` the default language for this community but please bear in mind that if you want unformatted code blocks you now need to declare that explicitly, so:

~~~none
```
\textbf{bob}
```
~~~

produces:

```
\textbf{bob}
```

and:

~~~none
```none
\textbf{bob}
```
~~~

produces: 

```none
\textbf{bob}
```

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