From 6ead43dad09567bed525a7127cf6f7f6f768a807 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Matth=C3=A4us=20G=2E=20Chajdas?= <dev@anteru.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 09:37:00 +0100
Subject: Clarify hl_lines usage (fixes #959.)

---
 pygments/formatters/html.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'pygments/formatters')

diff --git a/pygments/formatters/html.py b/pygments/formatters/html.py
index 3ba104f3..15993b07 100644
--- a/pygments/formatters/html.py
+++ b/pygments/formatters/html.py
@@ -272,7 +272,9 @@ class HtmlFormatter(Formatter):
         125%``).
 
     `hl_lines`
-        Specify a list of lines to be highlighted.
+        Specify a list of lines to be highlighted. The line numbers are always
+        relative to the input (i.e. the first line is line 1) and are
+        independent of `linenostart`.
 
         .. versionadded:: 0.11
 
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