Being an elixir newbie, I wanted to go about exploring the language through different experiments and make notes of my learnings along the way using github markdown files as they support syntax highlighting for different programming languages. I wasn’t sure how to highlight elixir syntax in a markdown file. I wrote a post(please find the link below) on how did people from the elixir community help me figure this out.

http://boddhisattvadedicates.blogspot.in/2016/02/how-to-get-elixir-syntax-highlighting-in-github-markdown.html