@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import {
 } from '@shikijs/transformers';
 import matter from 'gray-matter';
 import MarkdownExit from 'markdown-exit';
-import type { Token } from 'markdown-exit';
+import type { RuleCore, Token } from 'markdown-exit';
 import anchor from 'markdown-it-anchor';
 import attrs from 'markdown-it-attrs';
 import { full as emoji } from 'markdown-it-emoji';
@@ -82,12 +82,20 @@ async function createCompiler(options?: CompileOptions): Promise<MarkdownExit> {
         lang = 'text';
       }
     }
+    // `markdown-it-attrs` strips the `{1,3-5}` line-highlight ranges out of
+    // `token.info` at parse time (it treats `{…}` as an attribute block), so by
+    // render time only the language remains. The `stash_fence_info` core rule
+    // preserves the original info string on `token.meta.rawInfo` before that
+    // happens; fall back to `token.info` when it is absent (a fence with no
+    // curly meta). Without this, `transformerMetaHighlight` never sees the
+    // ranges and line highlighting silently no-ops.
+    const rawInfo = (token.meta as { rawInfo?: string } | null)?.rawInfo ?? token.info;
     return highlighter.codeToHtml(code, {
       lang,
       themes,
       defaultColor: 'light',
       transformers: shikiTransformers,
-      meta: { __raw: token.info },
+      meta: { __raw: rawInfo },
     });
   };
 
@@ -109,6 +117,20 @@ async function createCompiler(options?: CompileOptions): Promise<MarkdownExit> {
   // GitHub alerts: > [!NOTE], > [!TIP], etc.
   markdown.use(gitHubAlertsPlugin);
 
+  // Preserve the raw fence info string (e.g. `ts {1,3-5}`) on the token before
+  // `markdown-it-attrs` consumes the `{…}` as an attribute block. Anchored
+  // after `block` so fence tokens exist, and before `curly_attributes` (which
+  // runs after `inline`), so the fence renderer can still feed the ranges to
+  // Shiki's `transformerMetaHighlight` via `meta.__raw`.
+  const stashFenceInfo: RuleCore = (state) => {
+    for (const token of state.tokens) {
+      if (token.type === 'fence') {
+        token.meta = { ...token.meta, rawInfo: token.info };
+      }
+    }
+  };
+  markdown.core.ruler.after('block', 'stash_fence_info', stashFenceInfo);
+
   // Attribute syntax: {.class #id}
   markdown.use(attrs);
 
 
@@ -38,6 +38,44 @@ describe('compile', () => {
     expect(result.html).toContain('<span');
   });
 
+  // The 0-based indices of code lines that carry the shiki `highlighted` class.
+  // (Shiki emits one `<span class="line">` per line plus a trailing empty line,
+  // so we compare highlighted positions rather than a fixed line count.)
+  const highlightedLineIndices = (html: string): ReadonlyArray<number> =>
+    [...html.matchAll(/<span class="(line[^"]*)"/g)]
+      .map((match, index) => (match[1].includes('highlighted') ? index : -1))
+      .filter((index) => index >= 0);
+
+  it('highlights a single {N} fence line (markdown-it-attrs must not eat it)', async () => {
+    const result = await compile('```ts {2}\nconst a = 1;\nconst b = 2;\nconst c = 3;\n```');
+    expect(highlightedLineIndices(result.html)).toEqual([1]);
+  });
+
+  it('highlights a {N-M} line range and a combined {a,c-d} set', async () => {
+    const range = await compile('```ts {2-3}\nlet a = 1;\nlet b = 2;\nlet c = 3;\nlet d = 4;\n```');
+    expect(highlightedLineIndices(range.html)).toEqual([1, 2]);
+
+    const combined = await compile(
+      '```ts {1,3-4}\nlet a = 1;\nlet b = 2;\nlet c = 3;\nlet d = 4;\n```',
+    );
+    expect(highlightedLineIndices(combined.html)).toEqual([0, 2, 3]);
+  });
+
+  it('highlights {N} even for languages without comment syntax (e.g. text)', async () => {
+    const result = await compile('```text {1}\nalpha\nbeta\n```');
+    expect(highlightedLineIndices(result.html)).toEqual([0]);
+  });
+
+  it('leaves fences without curly meta unhighlighted', async () => {
+    const result = await compile('```ts\nconst a = 1;\nconst b = 2;\n```');
+    expect(result.html).not.toContain('highlighted');
+  });
+
+  it('still applies markdown-it-attrs to non-fence content', async () => {
+    const result = await compile('Hello {.greeting}\n');
+    expect(result.html).toContain('greeting');
+  });
+
   it('converts emoji shortcodes', async () => {
     const result = await compile('Hello :tada:');
     expect(result.html).toContain('\u{1F389}'); // 🎉