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diff --git a/docs/src/quickstart.txt b/docs/src/quickstart.txt index 0d9a62bc..91e0953f 100644 --- a/docs/src/quickstart.txt +++ b/docs/src/quickstart.txt @@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ Quickstart Pygments comes with a wide range of lexers for modern languages which are all accessible through the pygments.lexers package. A lexer enables Pygments to -parse the source code into tokens which are passed to a formatter. Currently -formatters exist for HTML, LaTeX and ANSI sequences. +parse the source code into tokens which then are passed to a formatter. Currently +formatters exist for HTML, LaTeX, RTF and ANSI sequences. Example @@ -33,15 +33,17 @@ which prints something like this: <pre><span class="k">print</span> <span class="s">"Hello World"</span></pre> </div> - -A CSS stylesheet which contains all CSS classes possibly used in the output can be -produced by: +As you can see, Pygments uses CSS classes (by default, but you can change that) +instead of inline styles in order to avoid outputting redundant style information over +and over. A CSS stylesheet that contains all CSS classes possibly used in the output +can be produced by: .. sourcecode:: python print HtmlFormatter().get_style_defs('.highlight') -The argument is used as an additional CSS selector: the output may look like +The argument to `get_style_defs` is used as an additional CSS selector: the output +may look like this: .. sourcecode:: css |