diff --git a/emanote/src/Emanote.hs b/emanote/src/Emanote.hs
index 440467b89..22fdceccd 100644
--- a/emanote/src/Emanote.hs
+++ b/emanote/src/Emanote.hs
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ import Emanote.View.Tailwind (compileTailwindCss, generatedCssFile)
 import Emanote.View.Template qualified as View
 import Optics.Core ((.~), (^.))
 import Relude
+import Skylighting (defaultSyntaxMap)
 import System.FilePath ((</>))
 import UnliftIO.Async (race_)
 
@@ -73,6 +74,7 @@ defaultEmanoteConfig cli =
     , _emanoteConfigNoteFn = id
     , _emanoteConfigPandocRenderers = defaultEmanotePandocRenderers
     , _emanoteCompileTailwind = False
+    , _emanoteSyntaxMap = defaultSyntaxMap
     }
 
 run :: EmanoteConfig -> IO ()
diff --git a/emanote/src/Emanote/Model/Type.hs b/emanote/src/Emanote/Model/Type.hs
index c6f631743..5913bbc36 100644
--- a/emanote/src/Emanote/Model/Type.hs
+++ b/emanote/src/Emanote/Model/Type.hs
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ import Optics.Core (Prism')
 import Optics.Operators ((%~), (.~), (^.))
 import Optics.TH (makeLenses)
 import Relude
+import Skylighting.Types (SyntaxMap)
 import Text.Pandoc.Scripting (ScriptingEngine)
 
 data Status = Status_Loading | Status_Ready
@@ -56,6 +57,7 @@ data ModelT encF = Model
   , _modelEmaCLIAction :: Ema.CLI.Action
   , _modelRoutePrism :: encF (Prism' FilePath SiteRoute)
   , _modelPandocRenderers :: EmanotePandocRenderers Model LMLRoute
+  , _modelSyntaxMap :: SyntaxMap
   -- ^ Dictates how exactly to render `Pandoc` to Heist nodes.
   , _modelScriptingEngine :: ScriptingEngine
   , _modelCompileTailwind :: Bool
@@ -120,8 +122,8 @@ modelPluginBaseDir :: ModelT f -> [FilePath]
 modelPluginBaseDir m =
   fst . locPath <$> Set.toAscList (m ^. modelLayers)
 
-emptyModel :: Set Loc -> Ema.CLI.Action -> EmanotePandocRenderers Model LMLRoute -> ScriptingEngine -> Bool -> Bool -> UUID -> Stork.IndexVar -> ModelEma
-emptyModel layers act ren scriptingEngine ctw allowBrokenLua instanceId storkVar =
+emptyModel :: Set Loc -> Ema.CLI.Action -> EmanotePandocRenderers Model LMLRoute -> ScriptingEngine -> Bool -> Bool -> SyntaxMap -> UUID -> Stork.IndexVar -> ModelEma
+emptyModel layers act ren scriptingEngine ctw allowBrokenLua syntaxMap instanceId storkVar =
   Model
     { _modelStatus = Status_Loading
     , _modelLayers = layers
@@ -130,6 +132,7 @@ emptyModel layers act ren scriptingEngine ctw allowBrokenLua instanceId storkVar
     , _modelPandocRenderers = ren
     , _modelScriptingEngine = scriptingEngine
     , _modelCompileTailwind = ctw
+    , _modelSyntaxMap = syntaxMap
     , _modelAllowBrokenLuaFilters = allowBrokenLua
     , _modelInstanceID = instanceId
     , -- Inject a placeholder `index.md` to account for the use case of emanote
diff --git a/emanote/src/Emanote/Pandoc/Renderer.hs b/emanote/src/Emanote/Pandoc/Renderer.hs
index 4ad45b608..b69c6e199 100644
--- a/emanote/src/Emanote/Pandoc/Renderer.hs
+++ b/emanote/src/Emanote/Pandoc/Renderer.hs
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import Heist.Extra.Splices.Pandoc qualified as Splices
 import Heist.Extra.Splices.Pandoc.Ctx qualified as Splices
 import Heist.Interpreted qualified as HI
 import Relude
+import Skylighting.Types (SyntaxMap)
 import Text.Pandoc.Definition qualified as B
 
 -- | Custom Heist renderer function for specific Pandoc AST nodes.
@@ -48,14 +49,16 @@ mkRenderCtxWithPandocRenderers ::
   (Monad m) =>
   PandocRenderers model route ->
   Map Text Text ->
+  SyntaxMap ->
   model ->
   route ->
   -- | Rendering feature selection (code highlighting, static math, …)
   Splices.RenderFeatures ->
   HeistT Identity m Splices.RenderCtx
-mkRenderCtxWithPandocRenderers nr classRules model x =
+mkRenderCtxWithPandocRenderers nr classRules syntaxMap model x =
   Splices.mkRenderCtx
     classRules
+    syntaxMap
     (\ctx -> dispatchBlock model nr ctx x)
     (\ctx -> dispatchInline model nr ctx x)
 
diff --git a/emanote/src/Emanote/Source/Dynamic.hs b/emanote/src/Emanote/Source/Dynamic.hs
index ddb6f8f85..9dcd1900b 100644
--- a/emanote/src/Emanote/Source/Dynamic.hs
+++ b/emanote/src/Emanote/Source/Dynamic.hs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ module Emanote.Source.Dynamic (
   emanoteSiteInput,
   EmanoteConfig (..),
   emanoteCompileTailwind,
+  emanoteSyntaxMap,
   emanoteConfigCli,
   emanoteConfigNoteFn,
   emanoteConfigPandocRenderers,
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ import Emanote.Source.Pattern qualified as Pattern
 import Optics.TH (makeLenses)
 import Paths_emanote qualified
 import Relude
+import Skylighting.Types (SyntaxMap)
 import System.UnionMount qualified as UM
 import Text.Pandoc.Lua (getEngine)
 import UnliftIO (MonadUnliftIO)
@@ -45,6 +47,7 @@ data EmanoteConfig = EmanoteConfig
   -- ^ How to render Pandoc to Heist HTML.
   , _emanoteCompileTailwind :: Bool
   -- ^ Whether to replace Tailwind2 CDN with a minimized Tailwind3 CSS file.
+  , _emanoteSyntaxMap :: SyntaxMap
   }
 
 {- | Make an Ema `Dynamic` for the Emanote model. The bulk of logic
@@ -70,6 +73,7 @@ emanoteSiteInput cliAct EmanoteConfig {..} = do
           scriptingEngine
           _emanoteCompileTailwind
           (CLI.allowBrokenLuaFilters _emanoteConfigCli)
+          _emanoteSyntaxMap
           instanceId
           storkIndex
   -- NOTE: Per-layer ignore patterns are loaded once at startup. Edits
diff --git a/emanote/src/Emanote/View/Common.hs b/emanote/src/Emanote/View/Common.hs
index 7e7aea11d..e15b1e7b6 100644
--- a/emanote/src/Emanote/View/Common.hs
+++ b/emanote/src/Emanote/View/Common.hs
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ mkTemplateRenderCtx model r meta =
         Renderer.mkRenderCtxWithPandocRenderers
           pandocRenderers
           classRules
+          (model ^. M.modelSyntaxMap)
           model
           r
           renderFeatures