[docutils:bugs] #476 Using short pygments class names with HTML5 writer results in strings being struck-out

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**[bugs:#476] Using short pygments class names with HTML5 writer results in strings being struck-out**

**Status:** open
**Created:** Tue Nov 07, 2023 07:20 PM UTC by John Thorvald Wodder II
**Last Updated:** Tue Nov 07, 2023 07:20 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


When converting a reStructuredText document to HTML5 with the `--syntax-highlight=short` option, if any tokens in the highlighted code use the `s` class (for generic strings), docutils will render those tokens by wrapping them in `<s>...</s>`, producing struck-through text.

For example, given the following rST file:

```rst
.. code:: shell

    cat <<EOF
    Hello World!
    EOF
```

Running `docutils --syntax-highlight=short` on this file produces an HTML file containing the following:

```html
<pre class="code shell literal-block"><code>cat<span class="w"> </span><s><<EOT
Hello World!
EOT</s></code></pre>
```

Note the `<s>...</s>` around the heredoc, which is rendered as struck-through text.


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